Werner Herzog
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And I said, read this because you have been in many of these events.
Tell me if I'm completely wrong.
And of course, I made a few modifications.
Yes, she couldn't fact-check, yeah.
Well, I didn't invent it.
She said it in an interview.
So that is verifiable.
But I always had it in me to absorb things and things are embedded deep inside of me.
All of a sudden, 10 years later, it reemerges, but in form of a story, in form of an element of a vision.
I think she's right in what she says.
And I was not a happy kid in school.
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.
I needed to earn money for producing my first films.
And I didn't like the kind of education.
It's complicated.
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.
Many, many things, a whole bundle.
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.
My bundle of intelligence was different.