"Create a place for people to live like human beings, instead of slaves to some bullshit concept of Progress that is driving us all mad."
~ Hunter S. Thompson
Werner Herzog on why making films is more of a Physical Labour for him than intellectual work:
"I always begin with very precise physical work. I believe that I have gained a physical sense for movement. Of course, it’s also intellectual work since I have a clear vision of the scenes, images, and dialogues. But for me—and you might not believe it—making a film is really physical labor.
I like to arrange the set myself and I like working on costumes and building a raft. I want to traverse the rapids myself in order to get a physical sense of the rapid when going down a tributary of the Amazon. I tried out all of that.
I approach filmmaking through the real, by touching the film with my hands during shooting. That’s why I mentioned craftsmanship before. And then some day I’ll be old and sick; my legs will be weak, and my body won’t be able to move; and then I won’t be able to make films anymore."
(Werner Herzog's interview with Noureddine Ghali, 1973)