665. Werner Herzog Isn’t Afraid ...

So first of all, I just want to say it's really a pleasure to meet you. I have consumed a fair amount of your work, much less than some, more than others, and you strike me as maybe either the sanest crazy person on the planet or the craziest sane person. No, I'm only sane. I I just want to hear you describe how you see the world and I'll give you some leading questions, and I want to talk about your books, especially your recent book about truth.

But I don't know, do you feel like an unusual being? No. I'm as average as it can get. That is Werner Herzog, the German born filmmaker and writer and actor and a sort of citizen soldier. He is not average.

Hurtaga's made more than 70 films. All of them are spirited. Some are absurdist or pretentious. None of them are dull. There is Family Romance LLC about a Japanese entrepreneur who leases out humans to other humans who for some reason may need a stand-in family member.

We already have this episode, so unlocking it is cheap and permanent: the full transcript (49 minutes, 6,886 words), segment and word-level timestamps, and .txt, .srt, .vtt and word-level JSON downloads, as many times as you like, forever.

No account needed, we create one from your checkout email. With credits it is 1 credit; packs start at 10 episodes for $5, and monthly plans are cheaper still.