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0:14:17

"When I came back to Germany and I tried to hold all the investors together they said to me: 'well how can you continue? do you have the strength the will the enthusiasm or so?'

And i said how can you ask this question? It is... If i abandon this project I would be a man without dreams. and i don't want to live like that.

...I live my life or I end my live with this project."

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0:41:26

"I don't feel like doing a documentary on the Campas. It should not end up as an ethnographic film.

I also stylized them. I have them in the film probably are not precisely in their normal life. They do things they normally would not do. They act in the film, and that interests me even more.

Yet them have an authenticity of their culture, their behavior their movements their language and that... will just disappear from the face of this earth.

I don't want to live in a world where there are no LIONS anymore, or where there are no PEOPLE like lions.

And they are lions."

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1:11:57

"(In Portuguese(?)) or other sort of Roman Languages) The central metaphor of my film is that they haul a ship over what's essentially an impossibly steep hill.

If I lose that by using a level terrain, like the Panama Panel, I lose the central metaphor of my film. So that's why we don't agree.

As I've said, I'm prepared to take a bigger risk than the one you've advising me to take."

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1:19:35

"Of course we are challenging nature itself. And it hits back. It just hits back. That's all and...That's grandiose about it(?) and we have to accept that it is much stronger than we are.

Kinski always says it's full of erotic elements. I don't see so much erotic. I see more... full of obscenity. The nature here is violent, base. I wouldn't see anything erotical here. I would see fornication and asphyxiation and choking and... fighting for survival and... growing and... just rotting away.

...Of course has lot of misery. But it is the same misery that is... all around us. The trees are in misery. The birds are in misery. I don't think they sing, they just squeal(?) in pain.

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1:21:45

"...It's like a curse weighing(?) on the entire landscape. And whoever goes to deep into this, has his share of that curse. So we are cursed with what we are doing here.

It's a land that god, if exists, has created in anger. Its the only land where creation is unfinished yet.

Taking a close look at what's around us. There is some sort of harmony. It is the harmony of overwhelming and collective murder.

And we're in comparison to the articulate wildness and baseness and obscenity of all this jungle. We're in comparison to that enormous articulation. We only sound and look like badly pronounced and half-finished sentences out of a stupid surburban novel - a cheap novel.

And we have to become humble, in front of this overwhelming misery and...overwhelming fornication, overwhelming growth and overwhelming lack of order. Even the stars appear in the sky look like a mess.

There is no harmony in the universe. We have to get acquainted to this idea that there is no real harmony as we have conceived it.

But when I say this... I say this all full of admiration for the jungle. It's not that I hate it.

I love it. I love it very much. But I love it against my better judgment."

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1:29:08

"...Very much of this is too crazy and too... just not what a man should do in his life all the time.

...Even if I get that boat over that mountain, somehow I finish that film. Anyone can congratulate me and talk me to find it marvelous. Nobody on this earth will convince me to be happy about all that.

Not until the end of my days."

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1:30:53

"It's not only my dreams. My belief is that all these dreams are yours as well.

And the only distinction between me and you is that I can articulate them. And that is what poetry or painting or literature or filmmaking is all about. It's as simple as that.

And I make films because I have not learn anything else. And I know I can do it to a certain degree.

And It is my duty, because this might be the inner chronicle(?) of what we are. And we have to articulate ourselves, otherwise we would be cows in the field.”