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Werner Herzog

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216 total appearances

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

We didn't have any running water in the house, so my shower was the ice-cold water of the waterfall deep in the gorge, and hardly any electricity. I didn't know of the existence of cinema until I was 11. I think the first time I noticed that there was something like Germany, I must have been seven or eight years old. For me, the world was around me and that was it.

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

We didn't have any running water in the house, so my shower was the ice-cold water of the waterfall deep in the gorge, and hardly any electricity. I didn't know of the existence of cinema until I was 11. I think the first time I noticed that there was something like Germany, I must have been seven or eight years old. For me, the world was around me and that was it.

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

We didn't have any running water in the house, so my shower was the ice-cold water of the waterfall deep in the gorge, and hardly any electricity. I didn't know of the existence of cinema until I was 11. I think the first time I noticed that there was something like Germany, I must have been seven or eight years old. For me, the world was around me and that was it.

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

And of course, I started to question and I started to understand how does chaos and barbarism invade a fairly organized country. And that's why I wanted to go to the chaos of Eastern Congo after its independence, which I never reached and I probably wouldn't have survived it.

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

And of course, I started to question and I started to understand how does chaos and barbarism invade a fairly organized country. And that's why I wanted to go to the chaos of Eastern Congo after its independence, which I never reached and I probably wouldn't have survived it.

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

And of course, I started to question and I started to understand how does chaos and barbarism invade a fairly organized country. And that's why I wanted to go to the chaos of Eastern Congo after its independence, which I never reached and I probably wouldn't have survived it.

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

Yes.

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

Yes.

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

Yes.

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

My mother and my father was always outside of my life. I hardly knew him.

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

My mother and my father was always outside of my life. I hardly knew him.

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

My mother and my father was always outside of my life. I hardly knew him.

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

Yes, but not very much. It was fairly laconic and she said, look at me, that's me now. And I did a very, very severe mistake in my life. And my character had to readjust. I'm a different person. I think differently now. And so I accepted it. And, for example, she was never a racist, never deep into Nazi ideology at all.

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

Yes, but not very much. It was fairly laconic and she said, look at me, that's me now. And I did a very, very severe mistake in my life. And my character had to readjust. I'm a different person. I think differently now. And so I accepted it. And, for example, she was never a racist, never deep into Nazi ideology at all.

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

Yes, but not very much. It was fairly laconic and she said, look at me, that's me now. And I did a very, very severe mistake in my life. And my character had to readjust. I'm a different person. I think differently now. And so I accepted it. And, for example, she was never a racist, never deep into Nazi ideology at all.

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

It is more the aftermath and the restrictions. For example, I noticed that we were hungry. That was the only thing that was really hard to take. Otherwise, that we lived in very deep poverty. I didn't notice. It was a normal thing. And everyone around us was impoverished. And so it was nothing really special. Only much later I understood what poverty meant.

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

It is more the aftermath and the restrictions. For example, I noticed that we were hungry. That was the only thing that was really hard to take. Otherwise, that we lived in very deep poverty. I didn't notice. It was a normal thing. And everyone around us was impoverished. And so it was nothing really special. Only much later I understood what poverty meant.

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

It is more the aftermath and the restrictions. For example, I noticed that we were hungry. That was the only thing that was really hard to take. Otherwise, that we lived in very deep poverty. I didn't notice. It was a normal thing. And everyone around us was impoverished. And so it was nothing really special. Only much later I understood what poverty meant.

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

But that I had gone through it never affected me.

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

But that I had gone through it never affected me.