Perseverance has kept me going over the years. Things rarely happen overnight. Filmmakers should be prepared for many years of hard work. The sheer toil can be healthy and exhilarating.
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In the face of the obscene, explicit malice of the jungle, which lacks only dinosaurs as punctuation, I feel like a half-finished, poorly expressed sentence in a cheap novel.
Interpretation
What this quote means
This quote highlights the absurdity and chaos of existence, comparing it to unfinished and poorly articulated thoughts in a world filled with overwhelming negativity.
Werner Herzog's quote reflects on the chaotic and violent nature of the world, using the metaphor of a jungle to illustrate the raw and primal malice that exists in society. By comparing himself to a 'half-finished, poorly expressed sentence in a cheap novel,' he suggests a sense of incompleteness and a struggle to find meaning or coherence amidst that chaos, lamenting the overwhelming presence of brutality and disarray in human experiences.
Themes
ChaosExistenceMaliceMeaningLifeAbsurdity
In practice
Example use cases
Discussing the challenges of life in a philosophy class.
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