Werner Herzog

And because of that, I was in constant conflict with my school.

Well, it's a complex subject.

I would say I'm not afraid of what's going on.

However, we have to be very, very vigilant when it comes to warfare and other things.

It can be disinformation, fake news, perfect replicas of you appearing in a pornographic film can be done today.

And almost credibly, you better go to the source directly and ask, did you really do that, what I saw in the movie?

Okay, the answer is no, thanks God.

Do you believe in God?

I can't answer that.

I had a dramatic religious phase.

When you were much younger?

When I was in adolescence, yes, yeah.

Yeah, that was a dramatic short time, but I left the church.

Do you think about what happens when you die?

I think everybody who is alive and has his or her wits together thinks about it because it's the only inevitability that we have.

Everything else is up to God knows fate, lottery, statistics, anomalies within the statistics, you just name it.

But the only thing certain that we all share is that we are going to die.

And that, of course, dictates whether we are religious or whether we believe in an afterlife or not.

Normally, it's the other way around because it stabilizes.

It gives hope because dying is not easy.