Herzog being Herzog

[Twit 2]

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/23/magazine/werner-herzog-interview.html?utm_source=pocket-newtab

Some typically mad things said, as you'd expect, plus comparing himself to Michelangelo and Kurosawa. Personally, I do consider him a sort of benign megalomaniac. In some ways he's one of the most self-assured people in the history of the creative arts, pathologically so. He talks about having no doubts whatsoever about his work, in a filmography that would cause even the most equipped person to scream HANG ON A SEC WHAT THE FUCK AM I DOING HERE? Oddly, though, his grandiosity seems entirely channelled into his work and he remains, by all accounts, an incredibly pleasant and gentlemanly person to deal with. All in all, anyone with a filmography one tenth as extraordinary as his has earned the right to say whatever mad shit they like about it all.

[Thomas]

Liked it when he showed up as an estate agent for three minutes in Parks and Rec.

[Abnormal Palm]

That's great, love the guy. Might watch some more of his films.

[Poirots BigGarlickyCorpse]

I liked the part where he "lifted the spell of life" on his mentor and "allowed" her to die.

[grassbath]

Overwhelming and collective murder is still up there among what I call my 'unasked for impressions.'

[Poirots BigGarlickyCorpse]

Overwhelming and collective murder is still up there among what I call my 'unasked for impressions.'

He said something similar in Grizzly Man:

I believe the common denominator of the universe is not harmony, but chaos, hostility, and murder.