Werner Herzog had never even seen a movie until he was 11. Now 82, the visionary director is working constantly, still making ...

At director Werner Herzog's so-called "film school for rogues," he shows students how to forge a shooting permit. With more ...

[Read: The defiant strangeness of Werner Herzog] Consider this short ... And he’s off in a reverie, Gruber’s talking head replaced by shimmering clouds of fish swerving in unison.

Herzog was born in Munich, Germany, in 1942, the mid-point of World War II. His family left Munich for the Bavarian Alps when Herzog was just two weeks old, after a narrow escape from bombing.