Werner Herzog
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
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.
And I have my ongoing battle with them.
Whenever I run into them, I do battle.
No, no, no, no, no.
It's a concept that film is as truthful as it gets in their lingo if you are factually correct.
Fact-based, fact-based, fact-based, verifiable, fact-checked.
It's very shallow thinking, very shallow experience in the world and not my way of making films.
I mean, as a journalist, I like facts, but I understand that facts are not the whole story.
Same thing when I'm writing my memoirs.
Fact-checking my memoirs took three times more time than just writing it.
I gave the manuscript to my brothers, my older and my younger brothers.