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Werner Herzog

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
681 total appearances

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Fresh Air
Werner Herzog Isn't The 'Wild Guy' You Think He Is

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.

Fresh Air
Werner Herzog Isn't The 'Wild Guy' You Think He Is

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.

Fresh Air
Werner Herzog Isn't The 'Wild Guy' You Think He Is

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?

Fresh Air
Werner Herzog Isn't The 'Wild Guy' You Think He Is

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?

Fresh Air
Werner Herzog Isn't The 'Wild Guy' You Think He Is

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?

Fresh Air
Werner Herzog Isn't The 'Wild Guy' You Think He Is

And so we decided we'd just continue shooting, but at a safer place.

Fresh Air
Werner Herzog Isn't The 'Wild Guy' You Think He Is

And so we decided we'd just continue shooting, but at a safer place.

Fresh Air
Werner Herzog Isn't The 'Wild Guy' You Think He Is

And so we decided we'd just continue shooting, but at a safer place.

Fresh Air
Werner Herzog Isn't The 'Wild Guy' You Think He Is

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.

Fresh Air
Werner Herzog Isn't The 'Wild Guy' You Think He Is

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.

Fresh Air
Werner Herzog Isn't The 'Wild Guy' You Think He Is

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.

Fresh Air
Werner Herzog Isn't The 'Wild Guy' You Think He Is

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.

Fresh Air
Werner Herzog Isn't The 'Wild Guy' You Think He Is

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.

Fresh Air
Werner Herzog Isn't The 'Wild Guy' You Think He Is

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.

Fresh Air
Werner Herzog Isn't The 'Wild Guy' You Think He Is

Every grown-up man should do something like that.

Fresh Air
Werner Herzog Isn't The 'Wild Guy' You Think He Is

Every grown-up man should do something like that.

Fresh Air
Werner Herzog Isn't The 'Wild Guy' You Think He Is

Every grown-up man should do something like that.

Fresh Air
Werner Herzog Isn't The 'Wild Guy' You Think He Is

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.

Fresh Air
Werner Herzog Isn't The 'Wild Guy' You Think He Is

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.

Fresh Air
Werner Herzog Isn't The 'Wild Guy' You Think He Is

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.