Werner Herzog
speaker
545 appearances
3 recordings
3 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 1 Jul
Werner Herzog’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I always use this as an example.
Until recently, you had the Manhattan phone directory, half a foot thick, with four and a half million entries, all of them factually correct, but it doesn't illuminate you.
So it's not the book of books.
The phone directory is the accountant's truth.
But doing films or being a poet, you have to do something that illuminates you.
And very often you have to depart from the facts.
You have to go into ecstasies.
You have to step outside of your own self.
You have to exaggerate.
You have to modify.
You have to invent.
And this puts me in immediate conflict with cinema verite.
Which even has it in its name, verity.
Of course, they cannot claim being in possession of truth.
Nonsense.
They are not.
Nobody is.
And I have my ongoing battle with them.
Whenever I run into them, I do battle.
No, no, no, no, no.
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