Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski are both icons in their own right, and their five feature film collaborations were an explosion of unbridled artistry. But those fireworks were just as powerful off ...

Werner Herzog: Well, it's not normally what a director has to do. It's good to have some good boots, and you can barter it for a load of fish or my wrist ... Herzog won the best director award ...

Venice Film Festival is set to confer filmmaker Werner Herzog with the award Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement this year.

Herzog was born in ... to Paris to visit a dying friend. It’s fallen on “deaf ears”, but “since then I’ve said I’m a writer, I’m a poet. I believe my writing will outlive my films”.