Werner Herzog
speaker
545 appearances
3 recordings
3 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 1 Jul
Werner Herzog’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yes. You have somebody talking to you who grew up in the war. We were bombed out. There was a foot of glass shard and bricks and debris on my cradle when I was 14 days old. And then, of course, I grew up in post-war time, starvation.
poverty and since I had this experience for me it's obvious that there shouldn't be any war I'm against any war at all and of course it is terrible what we are witnessing now it is terrible it is terrible and it shouldn't be but what can I do I cannot fight as a volunteer in this war
You know, why I would participate if in Germany all of a sudden neo-Nazis started a rebellion, an armed rebellion, a coup d'etat. You would know who would be first one to rush back and pick up a weapon. It would be me. I would fight. Because?
Because something like times of the barbarism of the Nazis must not repeat itself. You see, as long as there is breath in me, I would fight.
And of course, having caused, having created the Holocaust, Germany has specific attention to Israel now. There's no doubt, but we also now, since it will be terrible what's coming, we also have to look after all the casualties on both sides.
Yeah, ramps.
Yes, the content, of course. And since then, I narrated my own writings, my own commentaries, and I had found my voice. But it's a stylized voice. When I'm talking to you, I'm talking like me in commentaries. There's a certain stylization, a certain performance in it, a certain hypnotic voice in it. I can't describe it easily. And it has caught on. Audiences love it. So I do it for them as well.
I do films for audiences. I write my book for readers. So I'm enjoying it. And I have been good. in parts, in roles where I have to play the bad ass, bad guy, like in Jack Reacher, or where, for example, in a film by Harmony Corrine, which is called Julian Donkey Boy, I play a hostile father who harasses his dysfunctional family, and I'm good at that. But it's all performance. Don't believe.
Don't ever believe. I'm like that as a private person.
No, not really. But, you know, when Jack Reacher was released, it was released in France as well. My wife immediately gets frantic calls from her girlfriend in Paris. And she says, Lena, are you really married to that man? We can give you shelter if you need to flee France. We are only an overnight flight away and Lena laughed so hard and told me about it.
And of course she will testify that I'm a mild-mannered, fluffy husband. She came up with that and I live with her happily now since 28 years. She will give you the right testimony.
No, we do not know because I just heard somebody across the street on a veranda ranting about like road rage. And all of a sudden I heard some sort of a mild explosion in something like a glowing piece of metal, like a kilo weight of glowing metal hits me at my belt or near my belt. And I thought something at the camera had exploded.
But no, and I saw the man with the rifle ducking down and disappearing. And I did not know because I did not want to call police. I said to the crew, BBC people, you are frantically now dialing 911. consider it. We'll spend the next six hours filing reports at a police station and we will have a helicopter over us and a SWAT team arriving in five minutes flat. Do we need that? Do you want that?
And so we decided we'd just continue shooting, but at a safer place.
Yes, it was outside and you can still see it on YouTube. It's funny because people think, ah, yeah, it was all staged and made up. No, it was not. It was reality. It was the real world. And, of course, in a world of fake news and inventions and embellishments, and so people believe that being shot and hit, not seriously, but anyway, that it must have been made up.
Or having moved the ship over a mountain that must have been a digital effect and we are only pretending. No, I moved the ship. So you have to connect yourself to the real world and then all of a sudden my memoirs become the most natural thing. a man who lived a very normal life with a few things that were exceptional. And I think it's not exceptional to move a ship over a mountain.
Every grown-up man should do something like that.
No, because we could see I was bleeding, but I could see it was the bullet went through all my leather jacket and the folded up catalogue and all my shirt and T-shirt. But it did not perforate my abdominal. It did not perforate and go into my abdomen. If it had been inside of me, lodged in my intestines, in that case I would have gone to the hospital. emergency room.
But I can distinguish what is serious and what can be taken and tolerated. So I do my best and I think in this case I did my best as well.
Well, I would have gone, sure, yes.
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