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Werner Herzog at DePaul
Maria Ada, a graduate student in Creative Writing at DePaul, wrote a great piece on last week’s lecture: Writing Lessons from Werner Herzog. You can find more of her writing at One Bedroom Wonders.
(Thanks for the submission, Maria!)
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“There will be quite a lot of solitude in it. But it doesn’t really matter....”
– Werner Herzog on being an artist
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Herzog to Appear at Depaul's CDM Theatre on...
This event is free, but it does require a Depaul ID. However, I’m certain some of you crafty Chicago types could find a way to sneak in. If any blondish, female members of the Depaul community would be willing to lend me an ID (or that of a friend) I would be very grateful, and will repay you in baked goods and/or beer. Or if you want to try and sneak in with me… please send me a...
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Help Bethany Orr, the talented creator of... →
Learn more about Bethany’s work here.
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Laszlo Brauning went rogue at the Rogue Film... →
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“Outside the wind is howling, whipping the laurel bushes. The sailboats in the...”
– Werner Herzog, San Francisco, 16 June 1979, excerpted from the first entry from Conquest of the Useless (which my lovely friend Jessica bought me for the holidays)
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Herzog on Psychology
Interviewer: Do you have any formal interest in psychology?
Herzog: I loathe psychology as one of the major faults of our civilization nowadays. There’s something not right about this amount of introspection. I can only give you a metaphor: When you move into an apartment, you cannot start to illuminate every last corner with neon light. If there are no dark corners or hidden niches, your house becomes uninhabitable. Human beings who are trying to self-reflect and explore their innermost being to the last corner become uninhabitable people.
Interviewer: Let’s not forget that psychology isn’t just about introspection; it can shed light on other people.
Herzog: No, you can understand others by other means. By dint of compassion, you understand other people, and there is a concordance of hearts. That is something different. Move away from psychology and engage in concordance of hearts.
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“In the face of the obscene, explicit malice of the jungle, which lacks only...”
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Werner Herzog from Burden of Dreams
December 2011
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Werner Herzog to play villain opposite Tom Cruise... →
I realize this is (semi-)old news, but what can I say? I’m an out-of-touch recluse.* It takes time for me to hear about stuff.
*which, in the Age of the Internet, means I should know about everything before everyone else… so it’s a lousy excuse, but it’s the only one I’ve got.
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Herzog's recommended reading:
Virgil’s Georgics
Ernest Hemingway’s The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber
The Warren Commission Report
Rabelais’ Gargantua and Pantagruel
The Poetic Edda, trans. Lee M. Hollander (“The Prophecy of the Seeress,” especially)
Bernal Diaz del Castillo’s True History of the Conquest of New Spain
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Marcelo de Oliveira's account of his experience at... →
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“For me, the border between feature films and documentaries has always been...”
– Werner Herzog, interview with Index Magazine, 2004
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“If you switch on television it’s just ridiculous and its destructive. It kills...”
– Werner Herzog
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“For me a true landscape is not just a representation of a desert or a forest. It...”
– Werner Herzog
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“Your light has to rouse it, and your eye has to recognize it, because you tend to see creatures that aren’t there, while missing ones that are.”
Herzog’s documentary about the Chauvet Cave was prompted by Judith Thurman’s article “First Impressions” in The New Yorker. (Thurman is listed as one of the co-producers of the film.)
Film stills from The Cave of Forgotten Dreams, 2011
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“And compared to other filmmakers - particularly the French, who are able to sit...”
– Werner Herzog
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Roger Ebert's Journal - Six of Herzog's less-known... →
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