No. Go for it, as I did it. Go for all the mistakes. I made so many mistakes in doing my films. They all have a stutter or a limp or they are squint-eyed. Hardly anyone notices it, but I notice. Make your mistakes. Get arrested if you trespass. Yes. Do it. There’s nothing wrong with spending a night or two in jail. I’ve done that. Don’t be afraid of the grizzly bear behind you. Travel on foot. Read books.
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Werner Herzog
Film director, screenwriter and opera director
Germany · b. 1942
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German film director whose features include Aguirre, the Wrath of God and Fitzcarraldo, and whose documentaries include Grizzly Man and Cave of Forgotten Dreams. He has also staged operas and written prose, and runs an itinerant workshop called the Rogue Film School.
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It’s how we are made as homo sapiens. We are biologically organized to cover distances on foot. That’s what we did for tens of thousands of years until we started to use horses, of course, until the mechanical age. And I would not call it “walking” because it’s not going out for a stroll or going out for a “power walk” or ambling in your city. It’s “traveling on foot.” You are reading the world, learning the essence of the world.
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National Geographic, National Geographic, interview conducted via Zoom, 1 January 2020
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