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As far as he is concerned, cinema – like music – is more deeply connected to imagination than pure reason, and though indubitably respectful of the rationalists of the world, unadulterated intuition is a brighter guiding light for Werner than analysis will ever be.
Being tossed about on the waves is the very nature of filmmaking, a state of affairs only an amateur would whine about.
the fact that every one of the creatures who live in the jungles and oceans and mountains of the world don’t care about us one bit.
Everything we’re forced to learn at school we quickly forget, but the things we set out to learn ourselves – to quench a thirst – are never forgotten, and inevitably become an important part of our existence.
Do you ever get bored? The word is not in my vocabulary. I astonish my wife by being capable of standing and staring through the window for days at a time. I may look catatonic, but not so inside.
It was instantly clear to me what the key to filmmaking was. They have a beautiful expression in Peru: “Perseverance is where the gods dwell.”
“Independent cinema” is a meaningless term. It’s a myth. Real independence is a state of mind, nothing more. To call someone “independent” is to give Hollywood too much credit; studios aren’t the navel of filmmaking or the baseline of anything. There has always been a dependent relationship between financiers, directors and distributors, which means there’s no such thing as true “independent” cinema, with the exception of home movies made for the family album or footage shot with a cellphone at a spring-break beach party in Florida.
