The poll Werner Herzog's Madness offered facts that most illustrate the German director's eccentricity and larger-than-life size. However, his life still provides many interesting bits of trivia or statements, if not as monumental. Which one is your favorite?
Joaquin Phoenix once survived a car crash unharmed. While still sitting in the wreckage of his car, Werner Herzog tapped at his window, telling him to relax. Phoenix said, "I am relaxed" and…
When asked whether he'd provide his voice for The Simpsons (1989), Herzog was puzzled. He was aware of the yellow figures, but thought they were advertising characters or something similar. Upon learn…
On the internet, some two or three dozen fake Werner Herzogs can be found, who partly answer questions on his behalf. The real one knows about this and could stop them, but considers the impostors his…
This was his advice to young filmmakers: "Roll up your sleeves and work as a bouncer in a sex club or a warden in a lunatic asylum or a machine operator in a slaughterhouse. Drive a taxi for six …
As someone whose most popular movies were made in the jungle, he thinks: "I don’t see [the jungle] so much erotic. I see it more full of obscenity. [...] The trees here are in misery, and the bir…
Once said that if he opened a school for aspiring filmmakers, he would let them go boxing above all. This would not directly teach them making films, but physical fitness was an important requirement …
Was friends with the late critic Roger Ebert, who helped call attention to his films in the US. Herzog also recommended Ebert to watch The Anna Nicole Show (2002), as she represented a "shift in …
For his documentary about death row inmates, Into the Abyss (2011), Herzog talked to a chaplain who would be with a convict right after the interview. He optimistically preached about paradise, forgiv…
In Fitzcarraldo (1982), Mick Jagger played the main character's sidekick before abandoning because of contractual duties. His character was found not to be played by anyone else and consequently exclu…
He despises Cinema Verité and instead of being a "fly on the wall" wants to be a "bee that stings". Herzog made two films about the German-born American pilot Dieter Dengler, who e…
It doesn't happen that often that a different director gets the chance to play a role in a fellow colleague director's film. Which one of these performances by a director in another director's film, …
Besides Werner Herzog's real-life incidences, which inspired two polls, he has also become famous for his voice and the peculiar way he delivers sentences. His way of talking is strange already in Ger…
These films captured our attention right from the get go. Their opening scene set the tone for the rest of the movie and ensured we would want to learn more shortly thereafter. Since this list looks a…