I just have to transcribe some of this stuff:
Herzog: "I do believe that these very intelligent people invented God, but it took God a while to grow up and create the world."And:
Colbert: [long pause]
Colbert: "I don't usually have guests this deep, so you shook me there for a second."
Herzog: "In Cave of Forgotten Dreams there's a postscript when all of a sudden you see radioactive albino crocodiles in the film. I called the producer from when I was shooting and he was in a pet store in Vancouver and just had bought a cage for a hamster and he said 'I just bought a cage of a hamster' and I said 'I'm filming albino mutant crocodiles, radioactive crocodiles.' And I hear this clatter. He dropped the cage! And said, 'you are shooting WHAT?' And I said I am shooting albino crocodiles, and they will be in the film."And:
Herzog: "You see, if I were only fact based... you see, the book of books then, in literature, would be the Manhattan phone directory. Four million entries, everything correct. But it dusts out of my ears and I do not know: do they dream at night? Does Mr. Jonathan Smith cry in his pillow at night? We do not know anything when we check all the correct entries in the phone directory. I'm not this kind of a filmmaker."
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this is so great, William! I had the pleasure of seeing Cave of Forgotten Dreams recently (in 3D) and highly, highly recommend it - esp if you can see it in 3D.
He's not kidding about the ending. It will go down as one of the greatest Herzog moments of all time.
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