The 2008 Film Issue of The Believer features the transcript of a conversation between filmmakers Werner Herzog and Errol Morris, which took place at Brandeis University last fall. As you know if you've seen Les Blank's short film Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe, Herzog played a significant role in getting Morris's career started by betting the budding documentarian that he would indeed consume his footwear if Morris ever completed his first film Gates of Heaven. Herzog survived the meal and their friendship survived the bet.
Even before the shoe-eating incident, Herzog and Morris got up to some odd adventures together. "When Werner and I first met each other, we took a trip to visit this serial killer [Edmund Emil Kemper III] in prison in Northern California," says Morris.
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