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Quotes from Minnesota declaration — Werner Herzog

born 1942 Germany

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Fact creates norms, and truth illumination.

Minnesota declaration (1999)

By dint of declaration the so-called Cinema Verité is devoid of verité. It reaches a merely superficial truth, the truth of accountants.

Minnesota declaration (1999)

Tourism is sin, and travel on foot virtue.

Minnesota declaration (1999)

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

Minnesota declaration (1999)

We ought to be grateful that the Universe out there knows no smile.

Minnesota declaration (1999)

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.

Minnesota declaration (1999)

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.

Minnesota declaration (1999)

Life in the oceans must be sheer hell. A vast, merciless hell of permanent and immediate danger. So much of a hell that during evolution some species—including man—crawled, fled onto some small continents of solid land, where the Lessons of Darkness continue.

Minnesota declaration (1999)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Werner Herzog (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.