Two of the finest minds at work. This is a dialogue as enlightening as no other. Worth visiting again and again. Herzog and Morris have such enviable chemistry that few minds as outstanding as theirs do. What marks them out as most unique is that they are the sharpest students of the idea of madness, and threaten its definition in its pursuit by their own behaviour every passing moment.
"It’s very complicated. Quite often I’m asked to describe him or categorize him, which you can’t do anyway. But to describe him—I’ve tried it a few times, and it gets more and more complicated—yes, that’s certainly one of those things, to become a bear and be the great bear actor. And he actually is on all fours and huffs at a bear, and he somehow leaves the boundaries of his attempts to become the bartender in Cheers. He leaves it way behind, and he is aspiring to something much deeper.
"I remember thinking, Yeah, if Othello had been in Hamlet’s place, and vice versa, there would be no tragedy.
"If everything was planned, it would be dreadful. If everything was unplanned, it would be equally dreadful. Cinema exists because there are elements of both in everything. There are elements of both in documentary. There are elements of both in feature filmmaking. It’s what makes, I think, photography and filmmaking of interest. Despite all of our efforts to control something, the world is much, much more powerful than us, and more deranged even than us."
http://www.believermag.com/issues/200803/?read=interview_herzog
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