Director Werner Herzog says film makers need “good criminal energy” to make films

Werner Herzog teenager needed only one thing after he decided that filmmaking was his fate: a camera. He found one in a cinematic school in Munich and went with it – which he calls “more than theft.”

“You must have a certain amount of good criminal energy (to make a movie),” he said.

Herzog now has more than 70 documentary films and feature films in his name. At the age of twenty years, he is still working constantly – and he makes films that no one else dreamed of.

He also goes through his skills in what he calls “his cinema school for Rugs”.

“You have to go out of what the base is,” Herzog said.

Childhood is determined by poverty

Starsog had no official training as a director. He was born in Munich during World War II, just two weeks before the city’s allies bombed in 1942. His father was serving in the German army, when his mother fled with him and his older brother to the Bavaria Mountains. Herzog grew up in poverty. The family rarely had electricity and lived without running water or sewage system.

Herzog said of his mother: “We were attached to her skirt, and we revived that we were hungry.” “She revolves around us and looks at us and says,” The boys, if I can cut it from the ribs of my country, I will cut it out of the ribs of my country, but I cannot. “

It is an experience that Herzog said in the man he is today.

Herzog did not watch his first movie until he was 11 years old, but he soon got a drug addict on American-cheap films.

To what extent will Herzog go to a movie?

Herzog started directing his own films in the 1960s, but it was “Airi, God’s Wrath” of 1972, who presented him to the world. The film was about a group of invaders who gradually go crazy while searching for a lost golden city in the Amazon.

The film, which was filmed on an expected budget in Peru, has been completed only due to the strength of Herzog and design. He sold his shoes to get some fish to feed the crew.

“This is not usually the director should do,” Herzog said. “It is a good idea to have some good shoes, and you can combine them for a load of fish or the wrist that I will give. I would like to give up everything.”

For him, it’s worth it. It is considered the final producer of “looting”, instead of the money that it may earn from.

“Of course, I sometimes make money and invest it in the next movie,” Herzog said.

In 1979, Herzog began working on “Fitzcarraldo”, which took three years of stress. German actor Klaus Kinski has played an obsessive and obsessed that will not stop at anything to build an opera house in the Amazon. To raise funds for this, Fitzcarraldo has developed a plan to harvest profitable rubber trees in a remote forest and rented indigenous workers to withdraw a 340 tons ship on a mountain to do so.

The director said that 20th Center Fox suggested filming the movie in a vegetable garden in San Diego using a mini boat.

“It was a poor movie,” Herzog said.

Instead, he bought a steamer 340 tons and was already moving to the top of the mountain during filming.

It was far from the only challenge. A border war between Peru and Ecuador Herzog forced to transfer production a thousand miles to a new site. The film also faced financial difficulties, plane accidents, and fighting between local original groups and continuous battles against rain and mud.

Herzog, who does not calm down to see the staff and crew – also. A documentary crew photographed chaos behind the scenes and turned it into a movie called “Dreams”. It has just been re -released in theaters.

Herzog also had to deal with the main actor “Fitzcarraldo”, which Herzog said was subject to anger explosions. Kinski was “mad” and “as it happens,” according to Starsog.

“You had to contain it,” Herzog said. “I made it mad, its explosive destruction, and a screen producer.”

Kinksi was letting him on Herzog. Before his death in 1991, Kinski described the director in his autobiography as boring, without spirit, appointments, implicit, cowardly crawl. Herzog calls, for his part, Kinski described “beautiful things”, and he said he helped the actor in writing it with synonyms.

Despite their stormy relationship, Herzog won the Best Director of the Cannes Film Festival when “Fitzcarraldo” was finally released in 1982.

One of the most ordinary filmmakers of our time

Over the past six decades, the German director made films about everything from an unnamed policeman in New Orleans, to a man who thought he could live with gray bears – he did so, until they ate it. Hertzog has never invented the extreme. If there is anything, I may be attracted to it. His films are often like a dream about the power of nature, the proposal of man and the edges of the mind.

His curiosity was transferred to the remote areas of our planet. Herzog revealed the hidden landscape under the ice cover in Antarctica and the horrific oil fires in Kuwait after the first Gulf War. He risked his life to capture the power of volcanoes and rarely possesses the old cavernous panels in France.

Herzog is not just a way out. He turned into the magazines he wrote while making Fitzarrado in a book called “The Glorious Invasion”. 11 others have been published: imagination, poetry and notes.

Herzog did not work behind the camera. From time to time he was behaving, the last of which was in the “Mandalorian” series. He also presented his distinctive voice to several characters on “The Simpsons”.

Herzog continues to guide, and is now working with its editor Marco Cabaldo on a documentary film on the search for a legendary flock of elephants in South Africa.

Pass his skills – the usual and unusual

Last September, he joined 60 minutes to Herzog while the ambitious directors were studying on the Spanish island of La Palma off the western coast of Africa; It is covered in volcanic rocks and ash from eruption three years ago.

It is a 11 -day workshop, which is referred to as a “cinematic school for Rugs”, and this is less than the basics of photography, and more than poetic vision and gravel.

“For Rogues, I also say:” You are able to do so. Earn money to finance your first films. But do not earn it with written works in an office. ”Go out and work as a guard in one of the sex club. I work as a guard in crazy asylum. Go to the livestock farm, and learn how to wear a cow. Earn your money this way, in real life. “

“You do not become a poet by being in a college,” he said.

“Rogues” knows how to formulate a shooting permit – something Herzog said he did himself.

“I know the selection of the lock. You … you should be good in it,” he said.

“Rogues” is also advised to carry bolt cutting everywhere.

“It is not for the low heart,” he said.