An Evening with Werner Herzog

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  • čas přidán 29. 09. 2010
  • One of the most distinctive filmmakers of our time, Werner Herzog has been called the “romantic visionary” of the New German Cinema movement. His edgy, larger-than-life films fuse the epic with the intimate, redefining the scale and scope of filmmaking to include more than 60 works shot on every continent. He appears in conversation with acclaimed author and essayist, Pico Iyer at UC Santa Barbara. [10/2010] [Show ID: 18698]
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Komentáře • 140

  • @LED1512
    @LED1512 Před 9 lety +52

    One of the great living human beings. Legend.

  • @marianneotott3071
    @marianneotott3071 Před 2 lety +4

    He is great! He is a giant of humanity

  • @letsgosurfing416
    @letsgosurfing416 Před 10 lety +3

    It's more than coincidental that the most interesting, ambitious, & inspiring people have had hardships in their childhood.

  • @marco6703
    @marco6703 Před 2 lety +4

    Werner Herzog voice and accent are absolutely iconic !

  • @matthewsnyder674
    @matthewsnyder674 Před 4 lety +20

    "The world reveals itself to those who travel on foot" is a top-class meditation.

    • @sspbrazil
      @sspbrazil Před 3 lety +4

      Ironically, Werner thinks meditation is stupid.

    • @jimreily7538
      @jimreily7538 Před 26 dny

      ​@@sspbrazilWhat ? Dude, he made a film as an homage to Tibetan Buddhism called Wheel of Time. Tibetan monks mediate. They strive for perennial meditation.
      I think you just made that comment because you think meditation is stupid. I don't know why. You should try it.

    • @sspbrazil
      @sspbrazil Před 26 dny

      @@jimreily7538 nope, look it up, he’s said it many times and he also thinks psychology and self reflection are the biggest mistakes of the 20th century, because he made a documentary on monks (which I know) doesn’t mean he thinks mediation and self reflection aren’t stupid and the monks have dedicated their lives to that life, so it’s something they can master, westerners don’t have the faculty to do that.

    • @jimreily7538
      @jimreily7538 Před 26 dny

      @@sspbrazil I did look it up, I cannot find it. Where did he say meditation was stupid ? What type of meditation ? Transcendental meditation is very different from mindfulness meditation.

  • @hikingwithmarty
    @hikingwithmarty Před 3 lety +4

    Such an inspiring man, will never forget seeing Lessons of Darkness for the first time, such an experience, his 'documentaries / mockumentaries' are truly of great inspiration. He not only invented or at least reinvented cinema but also was the initiator of much of content being found here on youtube, without many of the makers knowing, therefor alone everyone should know his works and understand his artistic perspective.

  • @reneewilson7423
    @reneewilson7423 Před 10 lety +18

    OMG I love Werner ❤️

  • @domzbu
    @domzbu Před 10 lety +14

    Skip to 8.50 for Herzog

  • @eyelessshiver
    @eyelessshiver Před 9 lety +10

    One of the best directors ever!

  • @domzbu
    @domzbu Před 10 lety +7

    1.30.00 -1.35.00 , blagging his way into working for NASA, hunted by immigration authorities, escaping across the border to Mexico, to working riding bucking broncos at the rodeo, to ski jumping, to being banged up in an African prison... Just a few of the things he got up to! This is the definition of a life lived

  • @KemptonLam
    @KemptonLam Před 8 lety +17

    41:12 Talking about Grizzly Man (2005). a film I LOVE.
    51:10 About Werner directing subjects in documentary films (a big no no for some doc filmmakers).
    52:52 The phone directory is full of "facts".

    • @Vingul
      @Vingul Před 2 lety

      I was specifically looking for the part at 51 minutes, so thanks.

  • @LotharioRowe
    @LotharioRowe Před 13 lety +3

    I've gone through this in its entirety no less than 3 times so far.

  • @assaidsly
    @assaidsly Před 11 lety +3

    One of the funniest men alive. 'Herzog on Herzog', is frickin hilarious.

  • @Sean-ne9sm
    @Sean-ne9sm Před 9 lety +7

    This changed my life.

  • @conradjones4149
    @conradjones4149 Před 6 lety +13

    52:33 "Happy New Years, losers!"

  • @illuminatiCorgi
    @illuminatiCorgi Před 7 lety +5

    I just want him to narrate my life!

  • @bigtaquito
    @bigtaquito Před 8 lety +12

    The most important quote of all time at 52:34

  • @Monitiko
    @Monitiko Před 11 lety +3

    I love this man so much.

  • @J0hnC0ltrane
    @J0hnC0ltrane Před 4 měsíci

    An enjoyable discussion.

  • @walterbishop3668
    @walterbishop3668 Před 9 lety +18

    the way he look at things is like an Alien who came on earth from some billion light years away planet.

    • @BrettonFerguson
      @BrettonFerguson Před 4 lety +2

      In 5000 years when archaeologists are examining the ruins of cities from our time, will they think sex toy shops are full of fertility idols? I ask this because everytime we dig up a dildo from Ancient times, we say it is a fertility statue. There are actual fertility statues from ancient times, but when they find a marble life size penis, polished completely smooth, it's a dildo.

    • @BrettonFerguson
      @BrettonFerguson Před 3 lety

      @howsdo Why do I care so much? Because it is funny. You should retire from your job as a keyboard psychologist if you think I care "so much". Ancient Greeks, Romans, and others made dildos, fucked themselves and each others. The funny part is when the snobbish specialists who have spent their entire lives in libraries look at them and say "It must be a fertility statue". Anything they find they don't understand they will say "It's a religious object". In 200 years archaeologists will think schematic diagrams contain religious symbols. -IiIiIi+

  • @suledrake
    @suledrake Před 11 lety +2

    He is truly an inspiration in how to live.

  • @MsCaramello73
    @MsCaramello73 Před 11 lety +2

    This was SOO great. Thank you so much.

  • @reaven666
    @reaven666 Před 12 lety +2

    My favourite film maker.

  • @thomaskirkpatrick1134
    @thomaskirkpatrick1134 Před 4 lety +2

    Always wonderful in interview!

  • @amgauctions29musicgearandm31

    He is the Gold Standard of fully realized artistic human beings since Michaelangelo

  • @PaulKurti
    @PaulKurti Před 13 lety +2

    thank you Very Much for posting this interview... something really worth spending 2 hours watching.

  • @raghu_yadav_yt
    @raghu_yadav_yt Před 13 lety

    Quite an educational video .. many thanks ...

  • @freejazzandcheese1
    @freejazzandcheese1 Před 12 lety +2

    Herzog blows my mind

  • @RonAlmeida
    @RonAlmeida Před 11 lety

    I am not concerned with my own culture as I do not have one to speak of. But having lived in different parts of the world, I see how much everyone of them have to offer. Nobody forces anyone else to do anything but the powerful have always manipulated the gullible and trusting since time immemorial. Christianity is the greatest example of it. I only try with my puny effort to make people aware of the dangers of following blindly. Tinsel is always attractive to the immature.

  • @FilmmakingFemboy
    @FilmmakingFemboy Před 7 lety +8

    This came up when I Googled 'ASMR for filmmakers'

  • @AlexanderSutulovAtelier
    @AlexanderSutulovAtelier Před 10 lety

    Paradoxically a humanizing character who incarnates a lifetime company. Werner Herzog soothing voice illuminates the path of a deep cave, not to cast a shadow but rather forge one out like the entanglements of a dead spirit. His anthropological existence about the memory of choice or something so human as the act of will is extraordinarily perpetrated through various marks and lead ways he insinuates through the mundane.

  • @TimChuma
    @TimChuma Před 10 lety +2

    When is Werner Herzog going to read the New York phone directory? It would be quite pleasant.

  • @phizap
    @phizap Před 10 lety

    a great intro for a great man, incredible !

    • @phizap
      @phizap Před 10 lety

      "my son, my son, what have you done" amazing film !!
      , art imitating life, and, we even got to meet the real guy, omg, amusing seeing werner so creeped out lol
      , and the great david lynch connection :))

  • @CortoArmitage
    @CortoArmitage Před 12 lety +1

    Ah... The most important issue we face today. Afraid it may be impossible to do it. Too late. All we can do is built mental defenses and hope for the best.

  • @glassjaw2007
    @glassjaw2007 Před 11 lety +2

    paradox: would i be wasting the world, watching an 1 1/2 hour interview of werner Herzog, as he says?

  • @Berniewahlbrinck
    @Berniewahlbrinck Před 11 lety

    I do recommend reading CONQUEST OF THE USELESS. I dont know whether to agree with Herzog saying that he is the only one who can write prose anymore, but it surely knocked me out. In fact, it's better than the movie which it is about (Fitzcarraldo).

  • @AlexanderSutulovAtelier
    @AlexanderSutulovAtelier Před 10 lety +1

    Our everyday existence has become so habitual, where language is a component of abstraction. A vehicle which allows removing ourselves from time in the same relation we as humans, understand the construction of a phrase through the pronunciation of a verb. The Divine Verb is at the center of his permanence…

  • @luftgeist7671
    @luftgeist7671 Před 3 lety +1

    Click 8:51 to directly go to Herzog

  • @BullshitDepository
    @BullshitDepository Před 11 lety

    Never have I seen such truth in a single sentence. Wonderful phrasing of a ghastly reality.

    • @Vingul
      @Vingul Před 2 lety +1

      Which sentence?

    • @RolandRED
      @RolandRED Před rokem +1

      @@Vingul 9 years later and we still don't know which sentence

    • @Vingul
      @Vingul Před rokem

      @@RolandRED it breaks my heart..

  • @timetogo888
    @timetogo888 Před 10 lety

    Honest storyteller !

  • @RonAlmeida
    @RonAlmeida Před 11 lety

    Diversity is what I am talking about. You are right that most Europeans keep to their culture, being proud of it. It is not the same all over the world. In fact I believe the world has to have a common language in order to communicate. Tell me how many Brits, Americans, Canadians and Australians speak any other language or know anything that is really happening elsewhere? Ich bin ein Berner aus der Schweiz. I am an Indian who has lived over 20 years in Switzerland.

  • @triuwidatreowe9385
    @triuwidatreowe9385 Před 10 lety

    Hmmmmmmm Epic stuff.

  • @MrCamparisafari
    @MrCamparisafari Před 11 lety

    ahh it was here ! read for progression!

  • @doomsdayZen
    @doomsdayZen Před 11 lety

    At the end of the interview proper, Herzog's telling of his idea for a movie "Bucking Fastards" about the twin sisters is spellbinding.

  • @Arfabiscuit
    @Arfabiscuit Před 4 lety

    He is legend

  • @RonAlmeida
    @RonAlmeida Před 11 lety

    It is the differences that make us interesting to each other not similarity except for the immature!

  • @letsgosurfing416
    @letsgosurfing416 Před 10 lety +3

    A very cool German....I don't know many.

    • @CCervido
      @CCervido Před 8 lety +2

      +Let'sGo Surfing Technically he might be German, but a lot about him is actually really Bavarian! Big difference!

    • @BananaRama1312
      @BananaRama1312 Před 4 lety

      @@CCervido not rly

    • @CCervido
      @CCervido Před 4 lety

      @@BananaRama1312 Bavaria relates to Germany like Texas to the US or Scotland to the UK. Whether or not that are big differences depends a lot on who you are asking.

    • @BananaRama1312
      @BananaRama1312 Před 4 lety

      @@CCervido can u give me some examples what about him is bavarian?

  • @MultiBernadette1
    @MultiBernadette1 Před 10 lety +4

    I love werner.

  • @doodoo66
    @doodoo66 Před 5 měsíci

    Guy at the beginning said retarded and no body freaked out. It was nice.

  • @frankdrebiin
    @frankdrebiin Před 11 lety +1

    You should write a Book. There seems to be a lot of Wisdom in You.

  • @thekaiser4333
    @thekaiser4333 Před 8 lety

    The Louis Trenker of Bavarian filmmakers.

  • @FappyGnome
    @FappyGnome Před 11 lety

    This is coming from reading, nay, surviving two of his essays

  • @MrRekarbenots
    @MrRekarbenots Před rokem +1

    i could listen to this cat talk until my bones turn to powder. so cool. so sublime. so sexy. oh, werner....!

  • @jlazelle1
    @jlazelle1 Před 12 lety

    Reject it!

  • @anarchosolar
    @anarchosolar Před 10 lety

    That is both true and untrue. It is true with public TV broadcasters but the willingness to sell VIVA to MTV when it was started to be independent of MTV. No surprise the channel has been crap for over a decade thanks to MTV.

  • @raharu000
    @raharu000 Před 2 lety

    52:04 epic

  • @keepcalmycarryon
    @keepcalmycarryon Před 11 lety

    We dance.

  • @frickadele
    @frickadele Před 11 lety

    Intelligence is your ability to adapt to your environment.
    Makes sense, right?

  • @RonAlmeida
    @RonAlmeida Před 11 lety

    The only problem I see is the drowning of other languages and cultures and all of us becoming clones of each other. There is no other problem, in fact there are advantages of understanding each other better but only superfullouslly, making us all as shallow as the majority today.

  • @ricarleite
    @ricarleite Před 7 lety +2

    Werner Herzog is the only real human being left. The only real man around.

  • @samuelsamenstrang6069
    @samuelsamenstrang6069 Před 7 lety +7

    90% of the comments here are just terrible. "he´s bad because he has different opinions than me". oh my god. students are so stupid today.

    • @samuelsamenstrang6069
      @samuelsamenstrang6069 Před 7 lety

      proof?
      Such an attention whore.
      Nobody cares about Herzog when he's acting like a typical old man
      I haven't heard him criticize capitalism
      Herzog shouldn't criticize revolution and socialism
      His accent and robotic voice is annoying
      and the worst is:
      Werner's lastest BS Film about the poor poor murderers on death row, makes one want to puke. Werner proclaims his "German culture" makes him against capital punishment. Yeah, Werner thinks people should be killed in showers with their kids like the Germans did

    • @samuelsamenstrang6069
      @samuelsamenstrang6069 Před 7 lety +1

      americans totally deserve trump!

    • @infjard
      @infjard Před 7 lety

      don't you think that the use of capital punishment in the third reich is exactly why he is opposed to it? you can't possibly be this stupid good lord

  • @JacksInn
    @JacksInn Před 12 lety

    I want to see the chicken twins.

  • @Retog
    @Retog Před 10 lety +1

    I haven't heard him criticize capitalism. That would be much more useful.

  • @12MatthewHarrison
    @12MatthewHarrison Před 11 lety

    Ask Werner

  • @RonAlmeida
    @RonAlmeida Před 11 lety

    If you understand English, you'll know that is exactly what I said in the first place!

  • @teeniebeenie8774
    @teeniebeenie8774 Před 7 lety

    he peers say he is over rated
    i dont know...

  • @RonAlmeida
    @RonAlmeida Před 11 lety

    I do not believe it can be regulated in any way, it is just up to every individual to be aware of both sides of the coin. A culture is developed according to a peoples’ environment and past. Systemising it will only create problems as in the democratic system where the majority dictate how a minority should behave. Globalisation creates other problems especially for the so called developing world that the developed world can never imagine but is too much to relate here.

  • @Nuruddunya
    @Nuruddunya Před rokem

    52:34

  • @timepiercer
    @timepiercer Před 6 měsíci

    Something tells me he didn’t go down there for an Ayahuasca ceremony.

  • @LavarockfilmsNet
    @LavarockfilmsNet Před 9 lety

    Proof Werner is not of this earth: 1:15:30 ...the object of his sentence is possessed by "us" ...of this planet.

  • @thekaiser4333
    @thekaiser4333 Před 8 lety

    The Louis Trenker of Bavarian filmmaking.

  • @jude999
    @jude999 Před 9 lety +1

    That guy, Pico's, constant humming is so obnoxious.

  • @RonAlmeida
    @RonAlmeida Před 11 lety

    You wouldn't if you read him.

  • @Leftyotism
    @Leftyotism Před 7 lety

    we have to avoid the multiple meaning of words :D

  • @hwAbdiel
    @hwAbdiel Před 11 lety

    Livy was Roman, not Greek, brah.

  • @RonAlmeida
    @RonAlmeida Před 11 lety

    A matter of opinion as it should be.

  • @i_dont_live_here
    @i_dont_live_here Před 6 měsíci +1

    Happy New Years; LOSERS 💀❤️

  • @anarchosolar
    @anarchosolar Před 10 lety

    Herzog thinks there are only 3 or 4 good films per year because he lives in LA.

  • @sabinereynaudsf
    @sabinereynaudsf Před 11 lety

    he is giving san francisco a bad rap.

  • @anythingilike7826
    @anythingilike7826 Před 10 lety

    The subtitles quaity is not that good, it's almost funny reading them....

    • @panszuba
      @panszuba Před 10 lety +1

      It's because they are automatic. Nobody wrote them, you see..

  • @adamtzsch
    @adamtzsch Před 10 lety +1

    Pronounced "Hurts-og", Yank.

    • @-theislander-5888
      @-theislander-5888 Před 4 lety +1

      adamtzsch it really isn’t but this is the closest an english speaker will come

  • @Daniel_Ilyich
    @Daniel_Ilyich Před 8 lety

    A discursive speaker, to say the least.

  • @911TruthFighter
    @911TruthFighter Před 3 lety

    Anti grav, Werner, has been around since the 1950s.

  • @ivan10veces
    @ivan10veces Před 10 lety +2

    Isn't it him a bit arrogant, even though is a great director, don't know about writer and that, he just can't stop talking about himself, still cant judge him, maybe he is allowed to be this proud.

    • @Gambitheart
      @Gambitheart Před 9 lety +1

      fuck offf

    • @surft
      @surft Před 9 lety +7

      He has a right to be, the interview is about him after all, not to mention that Herzog has probably experienced, and done more things in a single year of his career than most people will get to do in their lifetimes.

    • @ivan10veces
      @ivan10veces Před 9 lety

      I know, what he have done in life and in cinema makes him at the level of his ego, which isn't that over the top. Thanks we got him here to hear about his good stuff.

    • @ZachKokiri
      @ZachKokiri Před 9 lety +4

      An interview with Werner Herzog about Werner Herzog's life and career talks about Werner Herzog a lot? Holy shit, I didn't see that coming. What an arrogant self absorbed prick.
      Dipshit.

    • @ivan10veces
      @ivan10veces Před 9 lety +1

      You all win, he is one of those characters that has to be heard, and I do often. Glad to get to know who he is and his amazing life and teachings. I probably have hear all his stories and was quick to judge without any fuckin respect. Did it again:wrong, inopportune and iconoclastic without reason.

  • @Retog
    @Retog Před 11 lety

    Herzog shouldn't criticize revolution and socialism. He is very ignorant at times.

  • @ExtremTissePause
    @ExtremTissePause Před 11 lety

    Though directing Grizzly Man and all, he kind of ruined the film for me by talking himself.. His accent and robotic voice is annoying

    • @Vingul
      @Vingul Před 2 lety

      Erru gæren. Beste fortellerstemmen.