Episode 137 - Werner Herzog

Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso

Lemonada Media

Society & Culture, Film Interviews, Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2019

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Werner Herzog is 76 years old with three films coming out in 2019. I don't know how he does it, but I try to find out in this conversation. From a childhood encounter with god in the Bavarian mountains to sitting across from Mikhail Gorbachev, Herzog shares some pivotal moments from his decade-spanning life and career. In previous interviews he has expressed his disdain for introspection. This is not that interview. This is something different, something – I hope– that's more representative of who Werner is in the world. Inquisitive, empathetic, principled, honest, and above all, warm. You can donate to Talk Easy here: talkeasypod.com/donate/

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0:00.0	Pushkin.
0:07.0	There will never be a perfect film but it's a quest and it's fine and well I'm
0:22.1	somehow circling like an animal of prey around the campsite and I get a glimpse of it here and there through the foliage.
0:35.0	You see I'm trying to, and I'm quoting now the French writer Andre Jied
0:40.0	who famously said, I'm modifying facts to such a degree that they resemble
0:47.5	truth more than reality. And that's a very very fine insight describes how I am proceeding in filmmaking.
0:57.0	That was Werner Herzog. I'm San Francisco and this is Talk Easy.
1:03.0	Welcome to the show. Oh, Hey everyone. Before we get into Werner Herzog, I want to spend a second talking about something
1:36.8	that happened in the news this past week. On Tuesday, the governor from Georgia,
1:42.1	Brian Kemp, signed a fetal heartbeat bill that seeks
1:47.0	to outlaw abortion after about five to six weeks.
1:51.6	Now, two things here. One I want to acknowledge at the top that as a man I have
1:58.4	absolutely zero authority on this subject but I also want to add neither does Brian Kemp and same goes
2:05.6	to every man in Congress that continues to make bills about this issue. The
2:12.2	second thing is that I know abortion is a topic that is
2:16.8	very divisive. It is a very sensitive issue and it is something that people support and don't support and I and I
2:26.2	understand arguments for both and the thing that I want to just contribute to
2:32.3	this conversation is that we should be having this conversation because the bill that is potentially effective starting 2020 HB 481 is
2:45.0	unequivocally, factually objectively the most extreme abortion ban this country has ever seen.
2:50.0	It seeks to criminalize the women
2:57.1	who decide to have an abortion for whatever reason. And it also seeks to criminalize
3:02.2	those doctors that offer abortions to their clients.
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