"You can only get some French out of me with a gun pointed at my head" a few seconds later "It actually happened to me when I was taken prisoner in Africa …"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pY-0JfEdLY

There's something to be said for Herzog's intuition that his words may outlast his films.

If you haven't read it yet, read A Guide For the Perplexed, which is basically him talking about stuff (mostly films) in his own words. But the films become catalysts for his random musings, he can't help but dish out great throwaway lines about the wonders and meaning of existence no matter what he talks about.

It's one of my favorite books on this side of the century.

[0] https://archive.org/details/wernerherzogguid0000herz

What frightens me the most is that chicken and birds in general are literal dinosaurs, with millions of years of evolutions compared to sauropods. Imagine what life on Earth might have been with massive predators with claws and teeth, with the intelligence of a prehistoric, unintelligent chicken.

Somehow I doubt T-Rexes had the intelligence of a crow.