Werner Herzog - Cinema Quotes

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Everyone who makes films has to be an athlete to a certain degree because cinema does not come from abstract academic thinking; it comes from your knees and thighs.

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Cinema Verité confounds fact and truth, and thus plows only stones. And yet, facts sometimes have a strange and bizarre power that makes their inherent truth seem unbelievable.

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Filmmakers of Cinema Verité resemble tourists who take pictures amid ancient ruins of facts.

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Film is not analysis, it is the agitation of mind; cinema comes from the country fair and the circus, not from art and academicism.

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There are deeper strata of truth in cinema, and there is such a thing as poetic, ecstatic truth. It is mysterious and elusive, and can be reached only through fabrication and imagination and stylization.

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