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"There are different versions of that, and they all add up to an artificial image about me, which, in a way, protects me. In my biographies, for example, you can read that I quit a career at NASA for the love of cinema. The truth is that when I was 14, I went through an intense phase which constituted important perspectives and directions for my life that molded me and still inform me today. First of all: Walking. Second: Cinema. Third: Religion, which I have already abandoned again, but which I still can relate to."
--- That's how Werner Herzog responds when asked what his real name is. Of course it is! "First of all: Walking." God I love this man and his weirdness. Every day is nothing but aspiration to be one one hundredth of all he is. (And needless to say, every day is an utter failure.) Anyway as is true of every interview he's ever given, this one with THR is a gem filled with such things. (thx Mac) I can't imagine he's overjoyed to be asked for the billionth time about threatening to murder Klaus Kinski on set or about eating his shoe for Errol Morris, but he makes it entertaining every time anyway. The Film Society of Lincoln Center is screening several of his movies for the next week, starting tomorrow, and I've got to force myself to get to at least one. (I'm thinking probably Even Dwarfs Started Small.)
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In 1974, learning that Eisner was seriously ill and on the verge of death, the German film director Werner Herzog walked from Munich to Paris to visit her, in the faith that she would be well again when he arrived. His journey is recounted in Herzog's book Of Walking in Ice.
-from "Lottery H. Eisner", Wikipedia
I remember reading this story in a film class on the German New Wave movement. He believed that an act of will had a sort of mystical power. She recovered, and lived until 1983.
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