I like to direct landscapes just as I like to direct actors and animals. - Werner Herzog

There is one unvarying constant: everything in the jungle is at pains to strangle everything else in the battle for sunlight. It may be pitch-black at night, but nothing changes the overwhelming, implacable present tense of the jungle.

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.

It's a great metaphor. For what? I don't know to this day. But I know it's a great metaphor.