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 stylisation[….]

Tourism is sin, and travel on foot virtue[….]

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

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 into some small continents of solid land, where the Lessons of Darkness continue.

From 'Lessons of Darkness', Herzog on Herzog