Werner Herzog: And I turn around and I see that the cameras are rolling and I say: “Are we rolling?” and he nods to me and I say: “What’s the scene all about?” and he just shrugs.
Sam Feinstein: Then I’ll make a clamshell box for it, make sure I’ve got a write up of technical aspects as well as design, and ship it off to the client.
Herzog: You plough the fields very carefully to sow and then you harvest.
Feinstein: It’s a long story so I’ll try to keep it short.
Herzog: These moments do not exist, per se.
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Feinstein: The endpapers are plain, they don’t need to be fancy.
Herzog: And it had sails and quite everything massively built, because out there in the jungle you can’t get hold of, let’s say, papier mache or plastic.
Feinstein: Heat the tool, cool it, polish it, tool.
Herzog: That’s all there is, nothing more.
Feinstein: You will make mistakes.
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Herzog: Yes. The procedure is sometimes very banal, very stupid, very technical and is filled with discipline.
Feinstein: I also wanted to convey the sovereignty of nature over our lives, and that it will be here when we are gone, beautiful as ever.
Herzog: What is your opinion? What is your belief?
Feinstein: And with the political realm being as divisive as it is, I imagine it could put people off. I’ll do my best to make this paragraph as non-controversial as I can.
Herzog: Which is a fiction anyway. Please continue.