I don’t particularly care for gravity, so I suppose it’s no coincidence that several of my films – Little Dieter Needs to Fly, Wings of Hope and The White Diamond – are about people who dream of flying, are punished for it and crash to earth. I always saw Steiner as a brother of Fitzcarraldo. Both defy the laws of gravity in their own way.
Enjoy Herzog repeatedly drawing out the themes of his work immediately after saying it was all in the gut.
