I have always admired the work of Herzog but I admired the legend of his life more. Here are some interesting trivia about him. When he was thirteen years old he and his family lived in an apartment in Munich which they shared with several other people. One of them was an actor named Klaus Kinski. He did not use a phone till he was 17 years old.
Was voted the 35th Greatest Director of all time by Entertainment Weekly.
Claims to have walked by foot from Munich, Germany to Paris, France (a distance of about 500 miles) in 1974 to prevent the very sick film historian and good friend Lotte Eisner from dying (as, applying his logic, she wouldn't dare to die until he visited her on her deathbed). Eisner indeed went on to live for 8 more years after Herzog's journey.
Joaquin Phoenix was in car accident on a winding canyon road that flipped his car over. Shaken and confused, Phoenix heard a tapping on his window and a voice say, "Just relax". Unable to see the man, Phoenix replied, "I'm fine. I am relaxed". Then managed to see that the man was Werner Herzog, and Herzog replied, 'No, you're not'. After helping Phoenix out of the wreckage, Herzog phoned in an ambulance and vanished.
In late 2005, during an interview with journalist Mark Kermode regarding Grizzly Man (2005), a sniper opened fire with an air rifle towards them. Kermode panicked when Herzog calmly said, "someone is shooting at us". Shortly thereafter, a bullet hit Herzog. An unmoved Herzog insisted on continuing the interview and said, "It was not a significant bullet. I am not afraid".
This is small sampling of his interesting life....
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