In Their Words — Friday, December 7, 2012

Filming Rescue Dawn (2007)
Filming Rescue Dawn (2007)

Your film is like your children. You might want a child with certain qualities, but you are never going to get the exact specification right. The film has a privilege to live its own life and develop its own character. To suppress this is dangerous. It is an approach that works the other way too: sometimes the footage has amazing qualities that you did not expect.

—Werner Herzog