Grizzly Man (2005)

Sven Haakanson Jr.: Self - Alutiiq Museum Director

Quotes 

• Sven Haakanson Jr. - Alutiiq Museum Director : He tried to be a bear. He tried to act like a bear, and for us on the island, you don't do that. You don't invade on their territory.

• Sven Haakanson Jr. - Alutiiq Museum Director : He tried to act like a bear, and for us on the island, you don't do that. You don't invade on their territory... For him to act like a bear the way he did, to me it was the ultimate of disrespecting the bear and what the bear represents.

  Werner Herzog : But he tried to protect the bears, didn't he?

  Sven Haakanson Jr. - Alutiiq Museum Director : I think he did more damage to the bears... when you habituate bears to humans, they think all humans are safe... If I look at it from my culture, Timothy Treadwell crossed a boundary that we have lived with for 4,000 years.