Daily Inspiration Quote by Werner Herzog

Herzog turns a gee-whiz example - resurrecting dinosaurs with pixels - into a manifesto about what cinema is for. The line is pitched like a child’s astonishment, then lands like an auteur’s warning: technology isn’t valuable because it’s accurate, but because it’s intoxicating. Dinosaurs are a convenient proof-of-concept: a spectacle nobody can verify firsthand, a perfect object for image-making to replace experience. The real subject is the screen’s power to manufacture conviction.

Calling film tech “as good as dreams are” is classic Herzog, who has spent a career chasing what he famously calls “ecstatic truth” rather than journalistic fact. Dreams are not reliable; they’re persuasive. They compress time, bend causality, and make the impossible feel emotionally inevitable. That’s what digital tools offer him: not realism, but access to a new register of the unreal that still hits the nervous system like reality.

The subtext is also a critique of narrow technophilia. He’s not celebrating progress for its own sake; he’s reframing it as a poetic instrument. CGI dinosaurs aren’t a triumph of engineering so much as a reminder that audiences hunger for myth, awe, and controlled hallucination. In the post-Jurassic Park era - when blockbuster effects became the industry’s loudest language - Herzog is slyly reclaiming the conversation: the most “fantastic tool” isn’t the computer. It’s the human appetite to believe what the image tells us, even when we know better.