Werner Herzog gets shot by LA sniper during interview

See the great German filmaker get shot in the gut while giving an interview to the BBC - a couple of months later he pulled Jaquin Phoenix from a car wreck in LA. That's nothing, you should see his films! "Grizzly Man", "Rescue Dawn", "Fitzcaralldo", "Aguire: Wrath of God", "Even Dwarfs Started Small".

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[Bojan Milankovic]

"It was not a significant bullet. I am not afraid."

This fucking guy.

[Kocayine]

Also known as a german accent.

[Talisguy]

Or actually hauling an intact steamship over a mountain, just so it looks real when they film it. The guy's career has basically been a perfect storm of insanity. :P

[Morbius Fitzgerald]

Don't forget he once shot a film on the side of a volcano that could've exploded at any minute.

[Talisguy]

Yeah...insisting on filming in war zones half the time probably didn't help either. Especially when he's stuck in these places with Kinski at his most egotistical, and rebels shooting at the film crew....

[Morbius Fitzgerald]

I'll say he was always insane. Look up a film he made called Herakles (1962). That features, at one point, a race car accident and an explosion. On a budget of "nothing".

If he was only "a little insane" to start with Kinski amplified that by a million.

[cqtaylor]

Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski - now that would be one hell of a summer camp!

[Talisguy]

I don't know if he was always insane, or if Kinski drove him to it, but either way...

[Morbius Fitzgerald]

"The man's completely out of his fucking mind....and it is glorious."

I'll second that.

[shotmeindaface]

What we have to learn from this is: always look around when you're giving an example.

[Daniel Bello]

this is an angry comment thread

[zabiullah mujahid]

sorry its just that my dad got me the rifle for my birthday and i had to try it, so.........