> kinski always says it's full of erotic elements. i don't see it so much erotic. i see it more full of obscenity. it's just - nature here is vile and 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, there's a lot of misery. but it is the same misery that is all around us. the trees here are in misery, and the birds are in misery. i don't think they - they sing. they just screech in pain. it's an unfinished country. it's still prehistorical. the only thing that is lacking is - is the dinosaurs here. it's like a curse weighing on an entire landscape. and whoever... goes too deep into this has his share of this curse. so we are cursed with what we are doing here. it's a land that god, if he exists has - has created in anger. it's the only land where - where creation is unfinished yet. taking a close look at - at what's around us there - there is some sort of a harmony. it is the harmony of... overwhelming and collective murder. and we in comparison to the articulate vileness and baseness and obscenity of all this jungle - uh, we in comparison to that enormous articulation - we only sound and look like badly pronounced and half-finished sentences out of a stupid suburban... novel... a cheap novel. we have to become humble in front of this overwhelming misery and overwhelming fornication... overwhelming growth and overwhelming lack of order. even the - the stars up here in the - 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 is 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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