Fortified with philosophy.

Time's Steve Snyder sits down for an interview with Werner Herzog, available in print and also as a video, to talk about the filmmaker's new book "Conquest of the Useless: Reflections from the Making of Fitzcarraldo," put together from the journal he kept during production of the film. There's much signature Herzog verbiage: "I have enough stability inside of me to not be traumatized. If I were a soldier, I would not be the one to come back with posttraumatic stress disorder, because I think I have fortified myself with enough philosophy." On that note, Sandwich Films imagines a Werner Herzog cooking show, below, a concept that seems niche enough to destroy any potential viral video future, but which includes a decent Herzog imitator proffering a few more than decent faux Herzogisms: "There was a tree that had to be moved out of our path... it took ten men sixteen...

Time‘s Steve Snyder sits down for an interview with Werner Herzog, available in print and also as a video, to talk about the filmmaker’s new book “Conquest of the Useless: Reflections from the Making of Fitzcarraldo,” put together from the journal he kept during production of the film. There’s much signature Herzog verbiage: “I have enough stability inside of me to not be traumatized. If I were a soldier, I would not be the one to come back with posttraumatic stress disorder, because I think I have fortified myself with enough philosophy.”

On that note, Sandwich Films imagines a Werner Herzog cooking show, below, a concept that seems niche enough to destroy any potential viral video future, but which includes a decent Herzog imitator proffering a few more than decent faux Herzogisms: “There was a tree that had to be moved out of our path… it took ten men sixteen hours. But then I just went around it.” The video’s Jim Jarmusch is less successful, but you actually conceive of what a good Jarmusch impersonation would entail?