If We Are Paying Attention About Facts.
Q. There have been some accusations that you've taken liberties with facts in some of your documentaries and in "Rescue Dawn," particularly from the family of Eugene DeBruin. [Mr. DeBruin was a prisoner of war, portrayed in the film by Jeremy Davies.] What is your reaction to these accusations?
A.[Werner Herzog]: If we are paying attention about facts, we end up as accountants. If you find out that yes, here or there, a fact has been modified or has been imagined, it will be a triumph of the accountants to tell me so. But we are into illumination for the sake of a deeper truth, for an ecstasy of truth, for something we can experience once in a while in great literature and great cinema. I'm imagining and staging and using my fantasies. Only that will illuminate us.
-- New York Times, Sunday, July 15, 2007
I know we're heard it before, but my feeling is that we can't hear it too often.
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