Werner Herzog on His Obsession With ‘Here Comes Honey Boo Boo’ and Eating His Own Shoe
In conversation, Werner Herzog skews pretty serious.
“He takes everything completely literal,” filmmaker Harmony Korine says in an old clip about Herzog’s sense of humor. “He prides himself on not understanding any type of irony.”
The Gummo director, decked out in a Hawaiian shirt and dirtbag shades, recalls calling Herzog in the ’90s, pretending to be a rug salesman. “He would sit on the phone with me for 20 or 30 minutes, thinking I was a rug salesman,” Korine says. “I could sell him four or five different rugs and he never knew. He always takes you at your word.”
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