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shows a lot of forethought
and planning on my part. Do you know how how much work that is. I take all of those why I put this on purpose we met. Has it took two? He does a lot of places, pops plus, if you have to do a lot of places and then it would have had to take those that that's probably alive and ward o. Also you just stink too high.
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tried all at once. I would, above all, do our personal things that we do all at once and Eduardo your did yet, but you're armpit the microphone and at one two three go. You come before. I begin. I go
is that right- and you just go out well
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For something else.
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that was me. I think you're, ok with our there, if it's a put its did,
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making sure that this product- and it is a product, goes out to people for free for some reason,
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our little ticks? God knows why
the listener fan isn't hearing, maybe for this
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might be sued by Verna herzog. It's possible he's got some of his own, takes the accused me of being quite insane several times.
it uses everyone. It be your enveloped in madness. I some yelling at a toad outside the studio permits, are told
enveloped by insanity and magnetism MR hurts
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a cough, but I'm not you not. Why don't? We have those, because I recently recorded something at a sex m studios serious
sam, and they had all these cool buttons that were quite helpful and I thought ha these stoning
just in the studio that Eduardo desire, I was told that to give you toys that you can like russia- oh I got so much. I like me right cause like a ship in a castle, I'm like a ship in his speech,
scam, don't let that ship actually nowhere near any controls. I love that
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and made a coughing sound that all the time all the fart button. Oh my god, I love apart by just hitting that
They do not admit show that I was wait until I can today we're talking to danger
the dench or dame judi dench.
Such an incredible without europe's. Why, and I am getting all these sound, a bit buttons on energy,
just as I am never during that hot? Yes again, they beauty, judge that got
million listener and your movie
went through the roof. Then had we back instantly into the files that farming
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that being the yeah I'll be fantastic. When you looked uncertain,
right. Well, there's no transition here. I also need a transition that now it help right now that well my guest today
It's a legendary filmmaker!
Oh man made over seventy films, including
grizzly man and fits Corrado. Now has a new memoir entitled every man for himself and god
against all he is revered. He's esteemed, is a true artist. He should not be here. I'm excited, though, that he has joined us from our hearts. Welcome
The burner, you don't know who I really am and
so you don't really know if you could be my friend you dont know
what kind, of course- and we have seen each other- only weapons camera.
rolling and we haven't hit the bars we haven't been in high school. Together we have
raft- a downer chunky river, and so yes, yes, yes, I understand that it's gonna be harder for me to become your close friend yet
Israel's tat men in half an hour an hour of being together, but that's fine.
Let's try our best. What about if it were to exist? Would you say five hours would do it or are you talking
it would take, maybe more than more
time than either of us has laugh- is actually has happened in my life once or twice that I became
but instantaneous friend to somebody now I played in a soccer team which was her best.
In peru at the time. Yes- and I just
the condition
training with them, but all of a sudden when the head of the table
please playing against team, be there was one play a missing in the coach said you play team b, we
position. Would you like to play- and I said I want to play against one of
best in the world was in their team. You must vote it s, one of these
best players in the world. After the world championships guy got into a speed freak.
I try to give him
problems in vienna.
Stick it and after ten minutes
didn't know which which direction
we were playing yes,
I put my mail, which curiously worthy confounded confounded me bamboozled me. There were so exhausted after ten minutes. That actual
all of the field in vomited in some pushes for an hour and a half one guy pulled me out on my legs in time,
to me, and he says you did well, you played against one of the best in the world does met, I feel
defeated like that, and we were,
and in simply how so it wasn't what the soccer player the username around no, you became friends with the man who pulled you, don't like wild vomiting this exactly so. That's a guy who you could instantaneously be friends with, but colonel brian, no
I hope that you start to vomit at some point,
in this. You know you and I will rescue you not well we'll see drink. This
well something in there. What I'm going to say something else. What do I call you, because I have great respect for you when you called me word: okay, last name: is it verner with a
Well, will in in german, don't try
I'm going to try
no, it will be too too rough. Tough,
Ok, I won't do it for now. Let me say that I know from reading your book which, by the way we just give the title of this book,
every man for himself and guard against all
Thank god. This isn't a children's, but can you imagine saying ok little timmy itself,
go to sleep. We're gonna read every man for himself and guard against.
Ah well, yes, I dont think that boy would ever go to sleep. That's a tariff,
idea, but I read your book and you described
of his a bit of a loner. Do you have a big circle of friends or it under your natural way? No
circular, real friends is small,
in very intense? Yes, the only
Probably me said I live so far out in that's los angeles
My friends I in peru, thine germany. They are
in india. Yes, there
in mass sicily so that its debts is at the heart part of it. Here's a question to just occurred
me. We now have this technology that really exploded in india, zoom and everyone,
is saying what's fantastic, because I can keep up my friendship with people who live far away. I have a problem with zoom. I dont feel
like I'm really communicating with the person when I'm on zoom. It doesn't feel. I feel like something essential is being extracted from the interaction. Is that possible totally
although I use it, but
I use it only with people who might know very well so
but I have to refresh the physical contact with them. I want to
embrace him.
Directly once in a while
to love with a member to
a meal for them. Yes, so end. And then it's ok that, due to one or two zoom cause some time.
Himself business soon cause they have to be made because
there is somebody involved in a project too, is in
strangely, as somebody who is in the united kingdom in london and I'm in los angeles and it's very hard to get together, I'm trying to imagine when you would create
and I was thinking about your whole body of work, which is mind boggling. There are some
the times. We have put yourself in extreme positions as a director and I'm thinking that
you couldn't just sit still in your office and beyond on Zoom. You would.
to be on a raft floating down
river. Peru battling the elements on your zoom. While everyone else was talking generally mean that you it you were in a hard slog would have to be. That does it feels like that would be
the kind of zoom you would want to have is to put yourself way out there. No, you have to be really out then saw miss belong somewhere else. It's a it's
different world in. Do you have to me
good decision. Do you want to use it, for what purpose is up? For example,
probably the last held out to doesn't use a cell phone
I have a cell phone, have a cell phone no but turn
cultural reasons, not nostalgic, say I want to
derive may enter
ex nor made knowledge of the real world in in direct contact with the world,
the most intense would be travelling on foot, which I have done is a quote. You said it
broken it really stuck with me? The world
feels itself to those who travel on foot yeah. It's him
Morton to you to walk and see things in real time. It's not just
lt I mean you, I unprotected when you try
on foot- and I don't mean backpacking with your own hole,
sold on back here, your tend to sleeping bag. Your cooking,
your utensils in town, m and m,
a lazy bam like everyone else. I wouldn't sir travelin
unless there was
existentially important reason for it for
employees are able to travel on foot when my men to her mary
the woman by then a D s.
We should had fled nazi germany on the day when hitler,
for power and she was in hiding in france. Steering
second world war and
nazi regime in sheep
kay my men turned, was very important and when was dying, I said I'm not flying I'm not taken
the train. I am not going by car
come on foot, a thousand kilometers
and it was early.
Snow storms entail and rain, and whatever and
sleep under breaches, sometimes sometimes in the hay of a bar in nor I would open
migration home. That was uninhabited with her some sort.
tools, surgical tools without breaking a knock. I can open it and close
taken in sleep in there soon
and she was out of hospital by the way when I arrived in she earth and crowd of eight years later, when she was eighty eight, probably eighty eight, because we do not know exactly how old ships
came she celebrated her? Seventy fifth birthday at least
this may be three times normally. Women start to cheat about their age much earlier, but she had. Seventy I've been celebrating my thirty seven thirty, eight years late,
She summons me to paris,
She said to me just over cup.
Of terror
You know they're still dispel upon me. Then I must.
not die. You put that spell on me
old. Now, I'm almost blind. I cannot read books which
It's the joy of my life. I cannot see movies, which is the other joy of my life. I lay may can barely walk so
can you lift the spell of of man?
said: okay has its lifted.
And eight days later she died in. It was good. It was
right
she had put me in
position where had become independent.
Strong and self. Confident, yes and ensure you just name it. It's a beautiful story. You touch on your childhood,
which is not of this meeting
Clearly not of this century, but it feels like yours. Your childhood could have been four hundred years ago. You grew up and
poverty
Rapid this I mean you're born, as you say in the book. At this,
moment when fortunes are changing for the german army rod
in north africa
rommel is about to start losing and the germans have invaded stalingrad, which is the beginning of the end. So, but you grow up in this great tumult
and terrible poverty
and you say that you weren't, really aware that you were poor
other then you were hungry alot
Yes, that's when he really know your poor enter. My mother would have a loaf of bread. One low
four made two brothers and me and her for people,
and she would make a drew for each day and each of us had
thin slice of bread per day, but normally by friday. When who s? How hungry we had it now loaf of bread and we help
she would find something somewhere.
But sometimes it was always so sad.
day sunday that was averse to when there
nothing so
I remember that very well, inter
We were wailing and tugging at us curtain
She spanner, I remember, very well for that's his spins around completely
from post, but me
anger in despair in her face, and I ve never seen before after
a comedy she says boys. If I could
had it out of my ribs. I would cut it out of my ribs, but I can't
so you shut up and they made a big boy.
Impression on me, of course, but many p
they have grown up, hungrier were approved,
there's nothing wrong about their future,
ringlets, it's me
easier than for further parents. When mother can
feet the other children anymore. That's a real, often thing it centres
cause? I've been thinking
all of your work and ah
What comes up so often for me- and this is my interpretation
and so much there's been some discussion of your work. But why
there's an iron will that you have,
and I'm wondering with these film productions, which are you know, impossible to pollute
fear in the jungle. Its things are collapsing, your main actor,
how's kinsky wants to murder you you want to murdered him
all sounds impossible, and yet you always keep going and I'm wondering at his fat move ship over amount. You haven't finished. Rather you have to move a ship over a mountain, and you ve made work about how difficult the work was, their documentaries about how impossible that we reject is and what I keep coming
back to our a couple themes and one is: will iron? Will
and I'm wondering was that something in your.
pinion is that in your soul or is it
in your genetics or was that something that somehow was the product of having so little growing up? I think
not a correct description to point it. I am, will because
can dissuade me from from my will with a real good argument- and I do that
do I really do that.
I knew I could move a ship over mountain in the jungle. It can,
turning down you. I would be able to do it, although
nobody believed in it anymore. You you'll become very solitary when that
A hundred people around
and nobody believes in it in the next town, where you can buy a torchlight battery is a
with kilometers away, so
become very solitary, but it's not. I wouldn't call.
ireland will it's it's a very, very clear vision, very
deep vision in me and I knew
moving a ship over amount would be a great metaphor, something like moby, dick, yes
the white whale, something embedded
deep in our soul, in our could
If so, probably- and I can
articulate it.
and all of a sudden everybody understands, although
I must confess metaphor for what I cannot explain.
no one can have their own interpretation, because
Many them all the way we ve all in our lives. We ve all. We ve all pulled.
Ship over mountain sure, whether
and when I say that I mean we ve all battled with something
that most people thought what I can't be done
I'm curious! If, when I look at you work, I think, did you have
you seem very solid, the whole
I'm. Even during all this insanity in chaos, you seem very solid. I think you have a good
ask a good poker face, or did you feel true despair? If this, if there is only a mask, it's it's good,
cracks in it would become visible. That is
lee posing right. You have to you,
to have it in you now. So what can I say the test
it has carried me that I'm just myself and essentially myself in many of the situations
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There's another theme that use you love to explore, which is madness. It comes up again and again and again- and I was noticed,
It even came up with something
you're films there's that lie
between someone being obsessed and are they have they gone mad? Have they lost control himself? You ve worked with people who could claim
we'd be called mad if that's a real clinic
diagnosis any more when you did
your documentary encounters at the end of the world and you're in antarctica. I remember very clearly there's a scene where you're looking at the penguins and you start to wonder: have they gone mad.
Least one at least one has there one penguin gone mad, but I thought would want
so I went all the way to an article and he's looking at penguins and he still wondering about madness. It is it right that that is there that that is it a true. That's a theme that you like to,
try and mine or explore
Yes, it's not only madness, but a state where we can be out what be
and ourselves like an ecstasy like her
religious mistakes in the late middle ages or it could
a penguin. I asked a penguin region,
she never told he has not spoken to anyone for twenty four years. So I said
it- will be the first one and I
tell him some things that is never hurt. Why do
for example, a species of ants creek
it colonies of slaves of some sort of life that they, milk, fur droplets of war droplets of sugar.
Why is, and why does a chimp not saddles the goat and dry,
off into the sunset of
Rarely have monument valley yeah. Why does this happen
you say insanity among animals, not only among people.
Insanity among penguins some, because
observed a penguin that marches right into the country
meant and its five thousand kilometres of fur
of ice in the mountains and there's no way to turn the penguin around. You can do that and you shouldn't do it by the way.
But you can turn it around. It will immediately stubbornly march into his
es into the interior of the continent, not to the water,
not too the colony so
what is going on and I've been fascinated by this famously
much discussed.
it's so riveting? You had this work dynamic with fear
durkheim can ski and there's something
in it that I understand I
Stand because I've I've watched all the films. I've watched, the documentaries about the making of the films. I've seen him
completely lose control
I've seen him in real time people who
on the film plotting to kill, kinsky kinsky, plotting to
and threatening to kill you you pay.
Two, and I am I swear.
To you that what I'm saying is true right now. I've worked in comedy firm, nino forty years and for
thirty of those years. I worked many times out in the field making comedy under duress in strange conditions,
and I've wanted to kill people that I've worked with
one of them's here not happen, but I've, but I've I've been in I've, got into an altered state at times,
I've been hungary and cold and we need it
get this shot and a lot of what I do is somewhat improvisational and I need to improvise something and make something happen and I've you have.
To do. I have to deliver something, and I do so.
there are times when I have gone. I've gone to another state, and am
specifically of an episode I did where we are shooting in italy, and it was late
day and we were exhausted and suddenly we had to shoot a thing were hunting for truffles and I just I've started her eyes,
to lose it, and I think I lost my mind during the truffle hunt and started
helping around like a rabbit, know anyone watching it might think
I don't know, what's happening with conan, or maybe he's just doing this because he thinks it's funny. No, I really did lose, lose it and have this kind of me
this, but I also understand I'm kind of in love with it. I've this does
part of me that is attracted to it and of
or what you were doing multiply that by a thousand your work with kids
but when you say afterwards now we were brothers. If it's too most
people that would seem impossible that this man could be screaming at you and abusing you and you yet screaming back at him, but no, I understand
I understand how you can go through that with some one, but also cherish that bond. Does that
It's hard to describe it in my book I described quite a bit of about it
number one day, sir side to all these switches hilarious
number two. I've never lost it. I cannot remember,
did. I ever lost it. I've always be
the car must have come in such
so I say you don't lose it yeah. He would scream at the native.
People in the in the rain forest and they would huddled sit down because
to solve the conflict, very quietly, whispering in whispering wastes and they came,
the words to me and one of their chief said to me. You know I am river
afraid, but don't you believe
We were afraid of this screaming mad men. They were free
of me because I was so quiet tiger and-
I really meant business indian in moments
Real confrontation, kinsky understood, been explained
things very very calmly. This is impermissible. This cannot be done.
Training is a task that is beyond the two of us. We have to stick,
wait or else in
We know that this, or else would mean she would be a dead man.
within thirty seconds flat. I didn't have to spell it out. You just did, though,
You don't think that's what you're doing it now, you're doing and less, let's put it. Let's put it simply: yeah you have to
We have to have it in you to stop it
yeah, no men don't into understand. Yes, you do not do this you're, not
we kill each other, its abuse,
If your script, yes
she's outside of the movie
to the script, is not
Otherwise you end up.
s role and I've made no
films on death row, and I know that
every single one on death row that I met
Men and women were only a step
away from what I am, but almost all of us are yeah, that's true. There.
a human human beings.
It's interesting cause. There's this new movement. That's me
scots lately and it was written about the other day. I think of the new york times, which said: if you
when dealing with someone who's out of control or psychotic. They save me
A grey rock, become bland and very, very sort of almost
this interested and they say
the best way to treat them so had you screamed back at you.
Ski, no note and and and entertained, and tried to meet him scream for scream. The whole thing would have blown up by staying almost inert. As you did know, we have a plane crash.
And only garbled messages in our camp. We didn't know exactly where was it how many p
it. We was. A sign was coming to this film shoe to our films to our set transporting extras.
and I tried
makes sense, but it what it was in kinsky at that morning. We, sir
coffee
in all their hats in tis. He must allow
one because we alter their line of
would be first and last,
coffee was lukewarm heat, it just lost it over it and he kept yelling and screaming. For now, I love foaming
His mouth at mean literally have not exaggerating screaming at the top of his lungs.
Close to my face that cows- and I tried to it-
claim Klaus there's a plain down. We need to understand what the radio the guard with radio is transmitting to us.
So in finally, I couldn't get rid of him.
I went to my heart
it wouldn't little piece of chocolate, very good chocolate left and I stood right in
his face and eight to chocolate. I was too much for him because chocolate was the most lighted with the camp. Yes,
my last piece of chocolate and heat he just.
fell silent yeah through here. Yes, it's like you, you can't you shut down. The computer just went to the asses, went to the apple logo, there's nothing. He could do it that moment, yeah
aye, aye aye, its passing, because you ve done this?
very intense and end beloved work.
explore these intense themes, but because
famine notoriety. Your also being asked to do
these other side projects which
are very popular in popular culture. Youth Ben
asked on the simpsons. Yes,
more than once
mental, nor a lorry, the mandatory nature, yes jack reach parks and recreation, and I'm curious
Were youth,
how you reconcile because it
a chasm between b
in Peru, your life,
threatened by a madman trying to make this magnum opus and then you're on the set of the simpsons or your with
yoda on the mantel orient. What is is it? It must be quite
fascinating to imagine the trips you ve taken in your life.
yes- and it's- I do not want to miss any of that, because I
the simpsons, very fascinating in ten
And and and a lot of anarchy in it, and when I was invited to speak a role I immediately set, do they speak? I cannot believe that I thought
There were only like comic strips printed in news
papers, I never seen it and I think, met grown,
who started it. He said to me: don't don't you know since twenty
for years. We are
on tv station on the singular tv shows of all time around the world. I did not know that did not exist ass. I asked
for a dvd to show me a little bit so that I could see how
here, how cartoon
the voices would be they actually sent a few
of them to me and in they said you don't mean
we cartoonists just speak review.
X and its wild enough tat, while the diverse so day. I acknowledge this,
really really enjoyed it didn't work I and good at that, and indeed jack reacher. I at the bad guys
open fire the have huge assault, dreyfus, they swim
they shout the yellow you they have fist rights. I'm the
at the centre of evil? I have very
few fingers left. I ate them in their good.
To avoid being sent to the term
a lead mine and lose my life there
and I'm lying. I for one am blind eye and I only have my voice to spread terror
in a calm voice and when
the villain, sir, the sub villain, whom
a mistake I
tell him, you can get away with it,
you're, really determined. Not to do that. I can you have to eat you.
This as I do it as I did it.
he tries in, tries and very calmly encourage. He may say that was
that was already good. You know you can do it just try harder and ended
Oh frightening, that when the film us out
friends of my wife in paris. They come
times they said Lena
Are you married to that man
I know we're only one night flight away from you. We can give you shall I say I knew I was I that's. That's my best know best reward the mandatory and there's so much secrecy around them shoot. What was that
Experience like for you will see
creasy went so far that sir, I had to say
the contract fulfil
huckleberry finland
met, delorean it listening to you had your costumes, you couldn't leave the studio unless you put the big
nick all over you and you are not allowed to speak about what
what's going on inside. So I understand that because it such a worldwide.
phenomenon and a fan,
marking outside them
hedges refer within
cameras in trying to
snap a few photos sower, but but they expire
in service was very
very interesting because some five row
Who is sir mass,
made behind all this, she invites
did me. I was always invited and never compete a train. You pardon me if I was in there,
our decision and he
apparently loves
They films and laughs. My writings- and he wanted
sir, to make
me ass a person visible for larger audience in the world that sick, I, who did
of these things, and you see,
We are speaking about my films and may acting by term equally important, I think, he's
writing, gender very, very beginning. I've been a writer,
They started out riding when, whenever
fifteen sixteen and I published my first books decade
go in there early seventies, and they are still constantly being repressed
it reprinted, inter
keep saying and its basically
deaf ears in it will fall on deaf ears
it is here as well.
Time is on my site. I keep saying written things my book,
smith proves my poetry with old problem
later. We will have a longer life. Then may films
will be remembered for my writings knots
much for my films. You write beautifully you you're you're, a terrific and
supplant writer and your writings very lyrical, and I think that that can travel through
all kinds of changes and how people experience, entertainment,
probably more safely enduringly. Then maybe film can so, I think, that's possible books are mature. Apples been movies that system
sing, but it's it's it's a fact you can. You can see it in
I've always loved to write poetry into you see. When you look at my memoirs people, I looking for
let's say, content, what
during this period,
of his life. It's not I'm not like
not an encyclopedia of my life, it's memoirs and its problems.
It's very, very intense right.
getting. I write freaks
all of a sudden in this
every man for himself and court against all I
insert five ballot
of the little soldier I was once in their nature.
Don't ask me, Sir child soldiers between
and deliver men? I mean tragic, tragic,
eight eleven year old, with weapons with weapons and in warfare
some of them, whom I filmed were dead three weeks later
you'll have the monfils my idea of boy and jelly looking
and with a catastrophic tragic,
life behind him were his parents were killed
front of his eyes, and he decided
to become a soldier warrior but
and all of a sudden there five ballots
The little soldier I inside
the is when I travelled on
What around germany I followed.
the simulations of the german border to help
country together when it was not united. Yet
to myself. Politics has given up so it's
lay the poets who can hold it together and night,
on foot around my own country, and I am
writing while I'm walking
in some of the most beautiful
Intense pro said I ever wrote was on that
travelling on foot or
walking in ice. When I travelled on foot from munich to paris
when things were essentially
essentially somehow reduced to two a pilgrimage tour to a big christ, not the
joy of walking. Of course, I also enjoyed it. I knew I knew
that's her
and I'm not superstitious, but I knew
when I arrived on foot not eisner, would be out.
hospital and she would live in. She actually did and
We believed it was because you put a spell on her. No, she said that jokingly yes later just before. She, though, every all you had that ability- and I was going to ask for it before you go- ask a safe place before you go one more thing. I'd like to live to ninety eight
and then I'll ask to see you again.
That's gonna, be albion, a lot of pain,
there was a revelation in the book that I find interesting because you're such a thoughtful person- I don't
your mind ever shuts off, you don't believe in therapy and then,
cautious about it, because it hasn't done no good to know when I can. I think it's one of her
monumental mistakes of the twentieth century, among many others, the big here
socially utopias communism
fascism have led to
to be disastrous. Overpopulation
our planet and you just name it destruction of what
What nature is all
that's started really in the twentieth century and
of the things that are one of the great mistakes of the twentieth centuries. Sir
to analysis of course started some decades earlier, but it really blossomed in the twentieth
entry in turn. I do believe that the twentieth century in its entirety was a mistake and going back to
well yeah
co analysis, I can give you
a parable when you
move into a new home and you illuminate this home too.
Very last to reassess its in corners
the old lights. Everything is illuminated. This house
becomes uninhabitable and human,
being sir illuminated to the darkest
none of their sole become
inevitably say didn't quote snow and
term you should
Be careful what you do. Of course, there are key
they tell clinical.
this is in you, you better! Do it but turn this.
Mass phenomenon, yet to think that
everything in europe
a balance and in your soul engineer
nellie tee and so will be solved.
by psychoanalysis, I do not think it is a good approach.
It's funny has I think it's it it's a by product of
This obsession and you in los angeles- so you see this now in the twenty first century, in LOS angeles, there's just
succession with
I want to eat all the perfect foods. I won.
Make sure that I get all the perfect treatments,
I want to achieve this perfect state of balance
yoga classes for five years old five year,
out
ben so easily, but about but with a great defender of LOS angeles, everybody now rightly sent everybody says I in los angeles, do you think you're the
so glamour of los angeles, but everything
in the that, in the last half century
somehow set the pace
in the thinking in the trends of the world without a mean being
completely trendy region,
Eighty two year the internet was born here the into
and I ve seen the place where the first contact was made
with ruthless in service.
reusable rockets are being built in in the parameters of this
to tea itself. I mean a southern outskirt, but southern part of it very all day.
great painters, art seen here, the heart seem very bad. Not young york anymore, if it was only fifty
these are so
now they are here the writers
Imitations. All
so the of crisis to pillage he's crazy sects in law
known in line skating. His fine butter
different or hurt socks lists of, what's in and what's out, what's hot and what actually I'm very much beloved by skateboard so got yes, a community skateboard haven't much right, yeah, yes, in their own by sight in time on this because the futile
tea and the insistence tried again trade
I can try to, can you will do this jump up
onto the re onto the railing off now Duncan s. Now I am too old for, and I've done, ski jumping
ski flying and almost almost died
in doing that,
anyway, you you do you do the wild stuff when your young butter and that those
easy things also come from here: region
detained day. The heavier worldwide repercussions ate it
inter
No other city lay does it happen?
in chicago and london.
In florence, in more
by you. I in buenos aires snow its lesson
less the wonderful to live in a city where all these,
happening all these things
happening. It's a very vibrant community. I guess what I was when I was you loved her participate. You left
No, what's going on so you do
some things that may be your typical person might think. Verna hurt doesn't view you watch the carnations.
very very few, but I to watch
to trash tv like let's say wrestle mania nuclear reactor
is like her nerves up enough about madness. Yeah, let's talk about it.
I don't know, but it is very interesting because it's a very clear
Food forum of of drama has
judged, and it's it's
a drama said are not in the fight itself. The fights,
interrupted by commercials, meaning that are not in that important, but they
No, the franchise shows
up in the in the ring his wife
that's wife in a wheelchair and blind?
and he has three
free sexy women in his arm and and re
it's against his wife in the wheelchair
All of a sudden, you have a forum of of drama.
going on a new form emerging, apparently probably s, crew
is ancient greek drama started out in the fifth century before Christ. So I watch
number one. I think the the poet must know
close his eyes avert his eyes. You,
to know in which, well, you are living z ever now. Yes, yes, and- and I and I've
Nothing against!
let's say once in a while it's
isn't there any more here
suddenly bubu yeah. That's my favorite the way
said it is gonna be be a meme whereas no, but but but
very fascinating yeah. There's something something deep about about
society that deep about something
about the american tree, dream
goes arise. Somehow, and I
I can see how the american dream is function functioning because
I've been in,
heartland of amerika? I have worked in wisconsin,
in louisiana, iphone
in
south carolina,
I've lived in pittsburgh with a guest family who pick me up from the
street. When I was homeless
without hesitation. I was part of the best that america,
I can give you
the term I think much
of the political,
chasm between left and right,
due to the neglect of the of
the centre, the heartland of america, people
say I are there the fly over us, but they live in Boston or in seattle. I, in los angeles in new york, and I
have you ever been in with colleagues, you know, but I have work there so end and I find it. I find it an outrage that some of the best of american
very good people living there. Of course, under wraps
send it in the media with much less action
access to education under
without that out max
two to the american dream and in this is
Why you have such cotton
Now, yes, I say why: why don't you
contact, your old school bodies,
tell them about
doing it and be interest
in what they are doing
what are they thinking? What are they doing? Put them on
on your radar?
They know their around and you like them and you like
are, I do like wisconsin and they do it. No,
unfortunately, to very few would know you are very prolific in europe.
It's your film work, your writing. What's the plan now what what? What? What what
ex couple of years well I've written a screen
if a story, that's long in me and I described in my memoirs- it's called bucking fostered
to the great title slip of tug mia and it's about twin, so
Does he identical twins.
I spoke in unison and we have had twins. We know. Sometimes they divide
their own secretive language, but these twin
unique. We ve never seen or heard of anyone else, and I was very close,
contact with him? They
can unison when they
the door- and they said up- please come in and do you want to have a cup of tea? They can be
rachel, iceland rehearsed, but they would answer a question that they could not expect in unison. There was a court case, some some a truck,
I have an ugly purple faced truck driver heads and a restraining order against them and a court there were allowed
two
testify the witness stand together on my god, but it's a iron principally few. I encourage you conant
will testify in then inexpressibly nell testify and then the next person there was enough,
exception they spoke in unison because they they would be terrified and woods unravel end.
and start shouting and sound and trust.
dream. They shouted to the top
driver he's lying every word. He saying is a lie: he's lying under oath in there
simultaneously the bucking faster
he is lying,
They both say the same mistake at the same same slip of tongue. In the same moment, even that I need to reveal that Sonia has twins yeah. She shown us video, the cameras of them communicating with each other before they could really talk. Yes and they are having fallen it. It's nonsense to us, but you understand it.
A full on they're having a full conversation. I don't understand a word of it: it's fascinating to watch, but
separate language. I do not speak in unison now,
I didn't make up, I said: hey,
Girls as it I said girls, even though they were not girls any march there were
in their early, forty suddenly turned he says it to them. I let's go
to a restaurant and they whispered with each other making up there.
spit in unison and they said, are now a restaurant daddy's wages in tuxedos and inside
now, let's go to efficient chip place around the corner,
it would be more than a speaking immune
listen to each other and then there
yeah. Let's do it so well
This coming out there's only a scream plates and financed. Yet it's not shock yet I'll. Give you the monies with that would be nice, but
I have a do you well, I have tens of thousands of dollars, so
about your the famous story about you is that you stole your first camera,
you didn't have a camera and you stole it and I actually I love this line from the book you
say I refuse to think of it is stealing you said I was exercising a natural right to put the camera to its entire
Did you use
I thought that is actually a fantastic
rationalization of, but also it makes perfect sense, but you
and so many limits, and I wonder of
hurt if you went into a black hole- and you appeared today as a young man, your early twenties and you have iphones here and you have computers that can
laptops that can edit. Ah, how different are the films
they completely different films. Are you now homes wouldn't be different out? No, I don't think so. It's it doesn't matter.
I should it when celluloid. When I started
thirty, five millimeter celluloid, very clumsy, expensive
took a long time to make a film much longer than today, and yet with ie.
Clear vision that I had to I've done, one film after the other. I've done a. I don't know over seventy films by now, and I've published at least ten books, and I have acted in at least twenty films and I have staged operas, so it wouldn't look different. If lucas writing a book,
whether you write it on a laptop longhand, thus make any
I for this
ben of wonderful treat. I have spoken to you before
er. Yes, I remember I do thank you for remembering, and I do love the
format, because in the other format I could talk to you for a seven eight minutes about
grisly man or nine minutes, and then thank you very much when herzog and the ban plays and to be a commercial yeah and
and this this format enables me to have.
Kind of conversation with you that I've always wanted to have so it.
it's ok. I have a feeling when I walked in here- and I knew this is your new home now and you ve, created it faces
I would have advised at that time in conflict with. Was it
b, c one, but was the who can remember yet embassy why? Whatever it was here by
station.
I the fire. They move on yeah. If I didn't quite have that money in its I'm still dallied segment,
maybe I'll be hitting you up reacts about our talk them. You real out. My welcome you have you will out, sir out brilliant
Damn you lies outside the men. You will out out talk them, you have to
stop gap. You know better
funny thing is, if you just if you love the work, you're, ok, so
it doesn't matter what the platform is. If you
the work and that's what I was so inspirational about. You is, you were not raise with the silver spoon your mouth you weren't sent to
you know u s c film school at a young age and given a push, internship theirs
the reason why you should be a prolific amazing filmmaker you had you didn't see a film, so relish
if lay in your childhood and no it sitting emails, you ve never existed and yet
it was in you and
here, we are, and so I think, if you're doing the work- and you have
things to say- and you have to
but you need to say the rest.
take care of itself. I believe that that's
stay encouraging and I will walk out.
Here, ten pounds lighter yeah
salute joy, Verna herzog. Thank you so much and the book I just want to say this is a fantastic lovely book, every man for himself and god again
all a memoir and a very special memoir cause you're right. It is not just recounting what happened a b
c d, it's a fantastic
dick story, but also
you to fall and poetic and words.
of your time. So thank you, sir
I
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Malta is my like a hundred thousand yeah. Imagine just just there's a hope.
should John wicks in the south and is a whole bunch of john wicks in the north and jaime just go towards each other. The ones in the north are wearing blue suits and the ones I in the south are wearing grey suits and they just go at it,
and then there's this guy who
the guy who runs the hotel. Oh
machine mcshane, but what's his characters name in John with movies, I forgot idea will come up with a continental, yet the hotels called
continental well in this the continent?
hotel? Is the white house? Ok,
its run by winston, so Abraham
lincoln- was a british guy,
played by ian mcshane and I yeah and he's the one in a sort of watching them
ground and really not doing anything, just sort of sipping
Italy's I'd Abraham lincoln, not doing sitting around watching the these armies. These massive armies of John
spite each other and going
and so it begins? Ah, yes and now it has begun, and just
and seems pretty ineffectual and doesn't really do
It should all the unfortunate
that's lincoln, except she did do stuff, wrote amazing spy.
His gettysburg address, boring you losing him. Okay, okay, civil war was started by the killing of a dog. What happens is the south killed our dog and then the south called it's dad and said: don't worry it's some asshole. I just killed his dog and he went what you killed the north's dog and
the job
the john weeks from the north came after the john waste from the south.
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