Spirit of immersion and curiosity and awe and participation is something which Timothy Treadwell and I have in common.

I have always postulated that we have to find a new way to deal with reality. It's not so much facts that interest me, but a deeper truth in them - an ecstasy of truth, an ecstatic truth that illuminates us. That's what I've been after.

It is something more fleeting than what you normally see. People might somehow take it into their own dreams, into their own life, in a way. I hear it more recently; people are telling me that when they leave the theater and see one of my films, they are not alone anymore. It's probably more that kind of feeling. If I managed to do a film like that, everything is fine.

Everyone who makes films has to be an athlete to a certain degree because cinema does not come from abstract academic thinking; it comes from your knees and thighs.

I prefer the material woman.

After "Jack Reacher" the parts I didn't like, most of it was silly.

May I propose a Herzog dictum? Those who read own the world, and those who watch television lose it.