Werner Herzog in conversation with Paul Holdengräber

Werner Herzog's exploits are the stuff of legend; his films are in turn visionary, disturbing and epic. Commenting on today’s media he has said, “I have the impression that the images that surround us today are worn out, they are abused and useless and exhausted. They are limping and dragging themselves behind the rest of our cultural revolution.” Through his films, he seeks to disturb the bland homogenised imagery that surrounds us, leading the vanguard against prescribed culture. “Our children will hate us for not throwing hand-grenades into every TV station because of commercials.” In conversation with Paul Holdengraber for one night only; Herzog will explore his ideas, movies and enthusiasms.

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Trailer: Cave of Forgotten Dreams

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Klaus Kinski is bored of filming

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Someone Please Let Werner Herzog Film in Space!
John Lopez, Vanity Fair, 17 Sep 2010
What will these albino crocodiles see when they see the paintings? What will they make of it? Today, we are the albino crocodiles, looking at the painting. We can only be awestruck, but we can never understand why they were painted, by whom they were painted, and so their mystery will linger.
The top of his voice: Werner Herzog interview
Ben Walters, TimeOut
You see reality TV, you can play video games in the virtual world, you’ve got Photoshop and WrestleMania… Our sense of reality is experiencing an onslaught of enormous magnitude. We have never had that before in the history of the human race – it’s as big as a medieval knight with sword and shield all of a sudden confronted with cannons and firearms on the battlefield.
Werner Herzog Q&A
Mike Giglio, TIME, 06 Jul 2009
The first thing that jumped out at me in this book is how many times you almost die. I think maybe I lost count at five. There's an airplane breaking apart on the runway; there's an allergic reaction to a penicillin injection; there's the time when your boat crashes in the rapids. You jump into the water at one point and barely miss some submerged pylons.
On the Absolute, the Sublime, and Ecstatic Truth
Werner Herzog, Boston University website, 1 Feb 2011
At its premiere at the Berlin Film Festival, the film met with an orgy of hate. From the raging cries of the public I could make out only “aestheticization of horror.” And when I found myself being threatened and spat at on the podium, I hit upon only a single, banal response. “You cretins,” I said, “that’s what Dante did in his Inferno, it’s what Goya did, and Hieronymus Bosch too.” In my moment of need, without thinking about it, I had called upon the guardian angels who familiarize us with the Absolute and the Sublime.