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Werner Herzog

Werner Herzog

Without dreams we would be cows in a field, and I don't want to live like that. I live my life or I end my life with this project.

When

I am walking I fall deep into dreams. I float through fantasies and find myself inside unbelievable stories. I literally walk through whole novels and films, and football matches. I do not even look at where I am stepping, but I never lose my direction.

I believe the common denom- inator of the universe is not harmony, but chaos, hostili- ty and murder.

My wife, Lena, took a photo where you can see a grizzly bear right behind me. She was worried about my safety. But I couldn't care less. I only disliked the situation because the bear was so close that I could smell his very foul breath. It's a very foul breath.

Someone like JeanLuc Godard is for me counterfeitintellectual money when

fu film.

compared to a good kung

I didn't mean to eat this shoe in public. I intended to eat it in a restaurant, but I was pushed a little bit into it. And it makes sense to some extent. Because it should be an encouragement to all of you who want to make films, and who are just scared to start, and who haven't got the guts, so you can follow a good example.

Taking a closer look at what's around, there is some sort of a harmony: it is the harmony of overwhelming and collective murder. And we in comparison to the articulate vileness and baseness and obscenity of all this jungle, we only sound and look like badly pronounced and half-finished sentences out of a stupid suburban novel. A cheap novel.

Have the monks stop meditating? They

all seem to be tweeting.

Of course there is a lot of misery. But it is the same misery that is all around us. The trees here are in mis- ery. And the birds here are in misery. I don't think they sing, I think they just screech in pain.

Is there such thing as insanity and derangement among penguins?

I don't

mean that a penguin might

believe

he

or she

is Lenin

or

Napoleon

Bonaparte. But could they just go crazy because they've had enough of their colony?

Kinski walked off, packed all his things and was absolutely serious about quitting and leaving at once. He'd already broken his contract 40 or 50 times. I went up to him and said, 'You can't do this.'

I told him I had a rifle and that he'd only make it as far as the first bend before he had eight bullets in his head. The ninth one would be for me.

You switch on television, it's just ridiculous. And it's destructive. It kills us. And talk shows will kill us. They kill our language. We have to de- clare a holy war against what we see every day on television. I think there should be real war against commercials, real war against talk shows, real war against Bonanza and Rawhide and all these things.

What I'm trying to say: it's very exhilarating for a man to be shot at with little success.

The enormity of their flat brain. The enormity of their stupidity is just overwhelming. You have to do yourself a favour when you're out in the countryside and you see chickens. Try to look a chicken in the eye with great intensity. And the intensity of stupidity that is looking back at you is just amazing.

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