(Werner Herzog on his first honeymoon)

The news everywhere today is that awesomely insane director Werner Herzog is opening a film school.  It’s really more like a series of weekend-long guest speaking engagements that he’s charging people to attend, but if Werner wants me to call it “Rogue Film School“, I will, because I’m scared he’ll bite off my nose and then tell me I don’t understand poetry.  Here are some awesome facts about the Rogue Film School, starting with the mission statement written by Werner himself:

“The Rogue Film School is not for the faint-hearted; it is for those who have travelled on foot, who have worked as bouncers in sex clubs or as wardens in a lunatic asylum, for those who are willing to learn about lockpicking or forging shooting permits in countries not favoring their projects.  In short; for those who have a sense of poetry.  For those who are pilgrims.  For those who can tell a story to a four-year-old children and hold their attention.  For those who have a fire burning within.  For those who have a dream.”

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