Born in Munich in 1942, Werner Herzog grew up as a child in a remote
valley in the Bavarian mountains. Until age 11, he did not even know
of the existence of cinema. He started to develop film projects from
age 15 on, and since no one was willing to finance them, he worked the
night shift as a welder in a steel factory during the last years of
high school. He also started to travel on foot. He made his first
phone call at age 17 and his first film at 19. He dropped out of
college where he studied history and literature. Since then, he has
written, produced, and directed some 80 films, has published books of
prose, staged about a dozen operas, acted in films, and founded his
own Rogue Film School.  