Werner Herzog

Being born is not easy.

I mean, it's a brutal event, painful and brutal.

And normally, dying is not an easy thing either.

So you better face it, what's coming at you.

And very often those who are religious can cope with it much better.

Well, memory is something, a necessity for simple survival.

Let's face it, of course, memory is malleable and it is shifting.

And we start to

organize or reframe our own memories.

And it's good that we can do that.

We can forget the real awful things and we can move on to the better part.

Many people can.

Some people can't.

Yeah, but it's a blessing if you can forget bad things or put them in a little corner.

My memory functions like everyone else's.

I shape my own memory like everyone does it.

And you see it when you ask your own brothers about the same event.

And I see somehow I must have shifted it slightly different from how they shifted it.

That's what is deeply human.

Thanks God we have the quality to organize and shift and delete and modify our own memories.