Pretty Dang Ecstatic

Briefly detained by Homeland Security, Herzog has a new classification to enter the country: “alien with extraordinary abilities.” ...

Film & Video: The Vision award you’re about to receive from the Filmmakers Alliance is a great honor – what does it mean to you?

Werner Herzog: I have no idea what it is. You’ll have to ask those – I am trying to investigate who are these people. I know very little. I was not able to return to the U.S. until just a few minutes ago when I was admitted back to the States.

Film & Video: What do you think of some of the new media distribution platforms popping up?

Werner Herzog: What is this?

Film & Video: Like entertainment on mobile phones.

Werner Herzog: I have no mobile phone. I don’t know what they do, apart of making phone calls. What do you do with them?

Film & Video: There’s a lot of entertainment now that’s being produced for distribution on mobile phones ....

Werner Herzog: If it is entertaining, so be it.

Film & Video: I know you just became a voting member of the Academy ....

Werner Herzog: Yeah, well, I don’t know how that happened, but I was invited and I accepted.

Film & Video: Are you planning on wreaking havoc?

Werner Herzog: Oh no. What sort of havoc should I wreak?


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Why I love this:

1. No canned answers. He has no idea what the Vision award is, and he's completely unruffled by it.

2. The famous lack of irony.

3. The way the interview doesn’t correct Herzog’s wonky English. “I don’t know what they do, apart of making phone calls.”

Pretty dang ecstatic, if you ask me.