I despise formal restaurants. I find all of that formality to be very base and vile. I would much rather eat potato chips on the sidewalk. - Werner Herzog

But walking became more important and more explicit in connection with my grandfather Rudolf, my father's father; I had the sense of walking in his landscapes. I was closer to him than to my actual father. I think it all had to do with the way the turn-of-the-century generation had deeper historical roots than the generation of my parents, who quit the continuum of European culture when they opted for National Socialism. They descended into a vague Germano-mystical archaism and went under with it. Perhaps I am being too subjectively concentrated on my own family here. Families are strange creatures, and mine is no exception. In addition, there is the circumstance that I knew my grandfather only when he was already insane.

The world reveals itself to those who travel on foot

You should look straight at a film; that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.