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Werner Herzog

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681 total appearances

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Freakonomics Radio
665. Werner Herzog Isn’t Afraid ...

And I said, read this because you have been in many of these events.

Freakonomics Radio
665. Werner Herzog Isn’t Afraid ...

Tell me if I'm completely wrong.

Freakonomics Radio
665. Werner Herzog Isn’t Afraid ...

And of course, I made a few modifications.

Freakonomics Radio
665. Werner Herzog Isn’t Afraid ...

Yes, she couldn't fact-check, yeah.

Freakonomics Radio
665. Werner Herzog Isn’t Afraid ...

Well, I didn't invent it.

Freakonomics Radio
665. Werner Herzog Isn’t Afraid ...

She said it in an interview.

Freakonomics Radio
665. Werner Herzog Isn’t Afraid ...

So that is verifiable.

Freakonomics Radio
665. Werner Herzog Isn’t Afraid ...

But I always had it in me to absorb things and things are embedded deep inside of me.

Freakonomics Radio
665. Werner Herzog Isn’t Afraid ...

All of a sudden, 10 years later, it reemerges, but in form of a story, in form of an element of a vision.

Freakonomics Radio
665. Werner Herzog Isn’t Afraid ...

I think she's right in what she says.

Freakonomics Radio
665. Werner Herzog Isn’t Afraid ...

And I was not a happy kid in school.

Freakonomics Radio
665. Werner Herzog Isn’t Afraid ...

I hated school.

Freakonomics Radio
665. Werner Herzog Isn’t Afraid ...

The last two and a half years, I was dozing most of the time, sometimes deep, fast asleep because I worked the night shift in a steel factory as a welder.

Freakonomics Radio
665. Werner Herzog Isn’t Afraid ...

I needed to earn money for producing my first films.

Freakonomics Radio
665. Werner Herzog Isn’t Afraid ...

And I didn't like the kind of education.

Freakonomics Radio
665. Werner Herzog Isn’t Afraid ...

It's complicated.

Freakonomics Radio
665. Werner Herzog Isn’t Afraid ...

There's such a thing like intelligence, but it's a bundle of mental qualities, memory, speech, combination of elements, logical thinking and musicality, a sense for poetry.

Freakonomics Radio
665. Werner Herzog Isn’t Afraid ...

Many, many things, a whole bundle.

Freakonomics Radio
665. Werner Herzog Isn’t Afraid ...

The kind of bundle necessary for being a good pupil in the school that I attended was not congruent with what was in my existence.

Freakonomics Radio
665. Werner Herzog Isn’t Afraid ...

My bundle of intelligence was different.