Werner Herzog Has Never Liked Introspection | The New Yorker
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A conversation with the filmmaker about the place of literature, the toll of war, and the conviction that his writing will outlast his movies.
Save this story Save this story When I first corresponded with the filmmaker Werner Herzog , in January, 2021, he told me that lockdown reminded him of Boccaccio’s Decameron . As he put it: “Go into isolation in the countryside and let the storytelling begin.” During quarantine, he finished two films: a documentary called “The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft,” about a pair of French volcanologists; and another, “Theater of Thought,” about neurotechnology and artificial intelligence. Both are forthcoming. He also wrote two books. The first of these, “ The Twilight World ,” w
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