Extended interview: Werner Herzog

[@marcus6918]

from germany here. not a single big entertainer interviewed him here yet. they will all regret it when he is dead. he said it himself, germans will give recognition when the poets are already dead. such a damn fking shame man. this dude is easily top 10 filmmakers of all time

[@Westfale08]

But there was an Interview in the SRF Broadcast "Sternstunden Philosophie"

[@marcus6918]

@ you are right, that interview was actually quite good. but he is pretty good at big entertainment too, he is not afraid of some spotlight. he deserves a little more in his homeland in my opinion you know what i mean

[@andrefjbernardo]

Why do you think that happens?

[@kiz8409]

Da haben Sie leider recht.

[@pblouison4388]

@@Westfale08 Luckily...but SRF is Swiss.

[@sspbrazil]

I can listen to Werner talk for hours about anything. Thanks for posting the unedited interview.

[@thekeywitness]

Werner is a once in a lifetime artist/thinker/personality. Thanks for the extended cut!

[@TheVid54]

A unique personality, a remarkable thinker, and an extraordinary filmmaker. I'll never forget experiencing his work for the first time: I had just graduated high school and walked into a downtown theater to watch AGUIRRE, WRATH OF GOD. Amazing, but little did I know that FITZCARRALDO was coming 10 years later. Astounding! I have been a Werner Herzog admirer ever since.

[@johnscott7195]

Fitzcarraldo was astounding alright..astoundingly horrible

[@TheVid54]

@@johnscott7195 Hey Johnny, I think I can help you rethink Herzog and FITZCARRALDO by exorcising the spirit of Klaus Kinski from your critical faculties. Let's give it a try shall we?

[@rhea0000]

but The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner! His documentaries are also among the best

[@cscss2923]

Thank you for extended cut with Herzog!! 🙏

[@goodnewsforever9574]

Herzog always speaks with so much profoundness about everything he has to say it's amazing!

[@tsharma91]

An absolute master at his authentic best! A treat to watch this and live in Herzog’s era.

[@petralyn]

Without reservation the most insightful interview with any celebrity from any generation. thank you Ben Mankiewicz and CBS Sunday Morning.

[@ajk2009]

💯 agree 🎉

[@maxlinder5262]

He is VERY Intelligent & well versed & thoughtful about Life ... mesmerizing..😮

[@voyagersa22]

From Colombia 🇨🇴 thank you Mr Herzog. A treasure of mankind ❤🍻

[@alexleon-tl1mq]

He must be one of the most interesting humans that’s ever existed. What an interview!

[@CarlosVega-wl2pm]

Beautiful! It is great to know that this kind of exchange is still possible.

[@ericclaptonsrobotpilot7276]

Wonderful Ben. So many interviews with Werner are the same two or three stories rehashed, but there was so many new stories you pulled out of him this time.

[@RyanMichero]

Absolute LEGEND

[@dashiellrenaud2312]

The best DVD-watching experiences ever is to watch Rescue Dawn with Werner’s director’s commentary on.

[@fergal2424]

ah fantastic, love the film and 'Little Dieter Needs to Fly'. Shall be searching for the version with Herzog's commentary for sure. thanks!

[@dashiellrenaud2312]

@@fergal2424 as far as I’m aware the only way to accomplish this is by getting the DVD, which I definitely recommend!

[@IlyaFitzpatrick]

He deserves immortality more than anybody

[@alleyoop4465]

Yes! When my grandfather was 2 yrs old, his father was still two yrs from buying his first car, (a 2 yr old 1927 Chevrolet.) He is now rocking my 3.5 yr old granddaughter while she colors on her tablet.

[@progyandas9650]

Perhaps the most fascinating interview of any filmmaker I've ever seen .

[@GeorgeTennesseeWiseman]

Werner is AMAZING. I LOVE him. When I saw "Meeting Gorbachev," he was there and did a Q&A after. It was terrific! I think Werner has an extraordinary mind and heart.

[@MarkSeibold]

Everyone should see and hear this entire interview. There are so many examples witnin this interview that I related so closely to as a self-taught artist and scientist myself. I believe I've only seen one of his films, which is Fitzcaraldo. Herzog's description of the actor Klaus Kinski was I'm sure quite shocking for many to hear, as I've witnessed some friends and family members from the past that suffer this condition. When Herzog admits that he really learned nothing from any schools. He was entirely self-taught. This is something that is reflected for many years within the greatest artists and scientists. This is the great experience of learning through heuristics as Buckminster Fuller spoke of in his final book of his lifes memoirs. An hour and a half went by so fast, I had to start again at the beginning to listen to certain essential examples again. Herzog's life is a great example for others, especially in these times we live today. A great thanks to CBS and Ben Mankiewicz for conducting this interview.

[@TerlinguaTalkeetna]

A quite unique an visionary filmmaker and very interesting human being. A species that has produced the likes of Carl Sagan and Werner Herzog gives me a slightest bit of hope that there's a chance to see something amazing tomorrow. Nice job CBS

[@EthanMallory]

His autobiography is not only the best book I read all year but also now one of my favorite books. Highly recommended.

[@kieferroche1995]

A true living Legend

[@billw1266]

Brilliant man. Profound writer. Watching his movies, I always sensed they were really about himself. “Little Dieter Needs to Fly”, just one of a plethora of amazing films of a man in a deadly environment, both natural and human, driven to survive his obsessions. A true genius.

[@TerlinguaTalkeetna]

One of my favorite films of his. Read the book first which made the film just explode from Werner's mind to the audience for me. What a storyteller.

[@wr9331]

What a gift of an artist and long form well executed interview without ads!

[@steveconn]

More Werner! Alright! Did so much monumental film work without soulless effects like today ❤❤ His upbringing and rodeo clown stories in the book are great

[@tiki0000]

Original lord of the rings has cgi special effects. Most of the crowds are fake. Dont say x or y is bad. However, they put the cgi far from the camera, and the real stuf near the camera, which makes it look good.

[@themancaveclub]

This truly a profound interview

[@zetetick395]

This was a truly incredible interview! 👍

[@texnessa]

My favourite artist and my favourite TV outfit. I miss running into Charles Osgood every Sunday morning at the CBS Broadcast Center as he left and I came in for the NFL Today. And I want Werner Herzog to be the last voice I hear as I drift off into the nowhere.

[@TerlinguaTalkeetna]

or Carl Sagan

[@marcelovictor4827]

This man is a god, light in our darker times, I love him and his work

[@cheri238]

Thank you, I have watched Werner's films, and I have read Werner's books and watched most of his interviews. A giant iconaclast among men, artistic with incredible beauty with images both dark and light. Bravo 👏 👏 👏 He is simply brilliant and very well read. I adore him. Ben Mankiewicz, amazing! Was your father by chance, Joseph L. Mankiewwicz or a member of your family? TCM, movie clasisics. When one understands, we are all connected, no matter the circumstances with the ebb and tide flowing in and out of consciousness we grow. Ben Hecht: Shakespeare of Hollywood by Lusician films. Andy Warhol was quite interesting as a filmaker and actor, as I saw many interesting people in and out of Studio 54, some you mentioned. 🙏❤️🌏🌍🌎🌿🕊🎵🎶🎵✨️💫✨️

[@davidgaian3461]

Such a fascinating man. Thank you for this wonderful interview

[@AngelicaCline-i6d]

MY great, great grandmother was born in Ireland in 1877 and died in Nevada in 1956 she went from corsets to jeans. Also trains, wagons, trollies to cars and airplanes. She came to the U.S.A. on her own as a teen by boat before Ellis island. Those would have been shocking times. In her life time she saw cars come to the masses, radios, tv's, air planes, Insulin, and the cure for polio.

[@johnclapzucker3145]

[❤]. Werner always stays real. Just 10 seconds in.

[@Patrick-yu1hu]

He is one of the few Germans who actually understand the USA. A true cosmopolitan.

[@openeye126]

amazed that they shoot this in Autofocus mode ( for sure it's not a Sony because the camera looses focus when Werner gesticulates with his hands )

[@bebavirtual]

great film director GREAT HUMAN, and unusual fragile deep , romantic and breathtaking shots and music ,full of respect to humanity and nature of nature , deep serious care for all of us , all his films are lessons for be more care , be better for each others , films warn us for changing world in every seconds , THANK YOU FOR ALL THAT MR HERZOG , WE LOVE YOUR WAY OF BE TRUE HUMAN IN UNHUMAN TIMES , greetings from Poland ,and hav a good heath

[@einbertalstein1394]

You are spoiling us, CBS.

[@mycuteb]

Wow amazing Interview.

[@AndyGoldner]

Essential!

[@12Cooper]

Magnificent human being

[@Patrick-yu1hu]

Note to Ben: Munich is in Bavaria - it’s the capital. Werner was being incredibly chivalrous by not correcting you on camera.

[@GNARGNARHEAD]

phenomenal

[@Jeremiah-h8i]

This man is such a legend. It occurs to me Klaus Kinsky could have benefited from therapy though Werner may have lost that asset in his films. Nosferatu 1979 is still the best

[@SyntagmaStation]

I absolutely idolize that man.

[@xograph68]

Great director……!!!!!!

[@Prousto]

I watched this on my phone.

[@seltonk5136]

Thanks for the update . I can sleep now

[@guywalker29]

Artur Schnabel, in his lectures at Princeton published in 1961 as My Life & Music delves into similar conversations about technology and military presence. Robert Lewis Stevenson's book titled Travels With A Donkey, Goether's Italian Journey and Edward Lear's accounts of walking tours in Sicily and the Middle East cover similar ground heard here.

[@michaelhermiston]

have we as a species learned to avoid something, without experiencing it and its negative repercussions first?

[@TerlinguaTalkeetna]

Rarely if ever......

[@bagggers9796]

We experienced the negative repercussions of war after the first one and yet haven't learned to avoid it even after 100's of thousands of years.

[@DroolRockworm]

Hey nice lawn mower in the background there at the beginning! Really professional job!

[@charlesrivers2309]

Did you not hear the segment about complaining? Bad look on ya.

[@Razorhaloforever]

Fascinating

[@johnjylanne7100]

No mention of Cavern of Forgotten Dreams? The guy strapped 2 DV cameras together and filmed a 3D movie of the interior of the Chauvet caves of southern France and captured art from over 30 000 years ago.

[@patricksmart6721]

You sit across from him and hold your own for two hours and then he says 'Very kind of how you spoke with me.'

[@fireball43]

interviews basically herzog's greatest hits, but im not complaining

[@Max.Wiggins]

Super!

[@ReneeKadlubek]

I'll try another 24 hour chunk of doing my best

[@guywalker29]

In 1903, Gwen John with her brother Augustus's muse, Dorelia, decided to walk to Rome from England, which she did, much of which alone.

[@workingtheories]

Werner Herzog is the man, but Michael Shannon was the lead in Jeff Nichols’ epically perfect Shotgun Stories before My Son My Son

[@joanlenin]

amazing interview but it sounds like a drone or something is hovering just out of view and kinda drove me crazy

[@ismaelferrario8780]

❤

[@ZacharyWeaver-rc8xc]

Y’all hear the chainsaw in the background or am I going insane?

[@roncinephile]

yeah it's a puff piece, but come on. Herzog freakin' rules, man. Watch his Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979) before the new Eggars one comes out.

[@chrisocony]

Werner's okay but hoping for a Katie Herzog interview.

[@orwellianson]

I love this man and everything he does.

[@HenryCasillas]

🌻

[@damienburrello933]

The world has always turned its gaze from those who walk in the opposite direction. They think it’s a personal sleight. They have no idea what the calling is within

[@lobabobloblaw]

Hearing him talk about his connection to Kinski makes me wish there was a film about the two of them-not quite My Best Fiend but more of a drama. Barry Keoghan as Herzog and Austin Butler as Kinski

[@andrefjbernardo]

47:45

[@fastenbulbous]

Werner, there’s still time to make a film with Mick Jagger.

[@tiglia7054]

sounds like one of those actors in old war movies

[@karl246111]

1942 year of water horse in the sign of the freat bear. Magnificent being!

[@damienburrello933]

He says that as a self-taught artist, he is the result of a mountain of defeat. And he points out that he could not have conceived of cinema without noticing the recycled red shirt in Dr. Fumanchu. It shows the importance of humanities involvement in the construction of its own arts, and not the perfect failure of AI art that merely makes a ransom note of previous examples to construct a picture out of a dark catalog.

[@openeye126]

it irks me that Werner never did anything on W.G. Sebald ... also a man who traveled extensively on foot

[@tolhumexy6706]

You do it then. Werner's done plenty.

[@Ramenscooter]

Sardines and anchovies only. Tuna = mercury

[@guywalker29]

Folks, when you are in the jungle and there are snakes around, take the first aid kit with you and don't leave lifesaving equipment behind.

[@johnjylanne7100]

Werner Herzog admits it's not climate change, but a shortage of resources that is a problem.

[@alcripple]

Can you talk like Werner Herzog? kzbin.info/www/bejne/l2m5Zal5f9uqfZYsi=Y2y1UQ0Ab6kLDWVF

[@jude999]

Non-woke hero who loves "the fly overs."

[@johnscott7195]

How disgusting he destroyed forests and tainted indigenous people to make that stupid idiotic film Fitzcarraldo..

[@TheVid54]

Obviously FITZCARRALDO was too lifelike for a self-righteous, smug critic like yourself. Herzog made it clear that your kind of hostility is comically par for the course and that time was on his side.

[@johnscott7195]

@TheVid54 Lifelike?..bringing opera to the Amazon is about as intelligent and meaningful as showing pictures of luscious foodstuffs to starving people..

[@johnscott7195]

@TheVid54 even Herzog thought it was horrible..but his ambition usurped his assessment

[@TheVid54]

@@johnscott7195 The film is what Herzog said it was: a fever dream. It's no different than any film about Christian missionaries introducing their savage concepts of Christ to the uninitiated. The fact that it wasn't done at the botanical gardens makes the picture lifelike, not the obsessional context of the film's plotline. Your flippant, cutesy metaphor misses the point of the why the film has its proponents.

[@TheVid54]

@@johnscott7195 For many, his concept of twisted ambitions and delusional visions is what makes FITZCARRALDO great. Herzog's assessment is his own, whether anyone shares it or not doesn't affect the impact of the movie. The controversial circumstances of the project itself warrant interest for many as well. I'm glad I saw it and it made a significant impression on me, as did Les Blank's documentary about it: BURDEN OF DREAMS. I find it interesting that you were repulsed by it.

[@healersofhumanity]

He’s a sellout talentless “walk in” in my opinion- he participated in a lot of unethical Hollywood psy ops- specifically- like w that horrible human Kinski or when Ian Curtis passed, what he and Bowie and that other shrew, Iggy Pop did- is UNFORGIVABLE.👁️. Sad that they give us these second rate actor money bros as artists.

[@stephenwisner4993]

That's just, like, your opinion, man.

[@tiki0000]

Nobody is perfect. Tom Crouise is in scientology, which hunts people that want to exit. Does this make his great movies less great?

[@tolhumexy6706]

What did Bowie and Pop do when Curtis died?

[@TheGroundskeeper]

Love you Werner

[@myownprivateglasgow280]

Maniac.

[@gudmundursturluson7683]

But a great manic.

[@bertiemarshall3391]

Interviewer is way out of his depth…. Dumbo half arsed questions

[@DirtyDawg]

Herzog would hate your guts lol

[@tommyswain3762]

Nah, I just watched an hour long interview of John Waters from Larry Charles and the man's questions and transitions were so clumsy. There was no conversation flow, it was rough. This is simple, effective and gives plenty room for Herzog to answer, elaborate and breathe.