Werner Herzog says he refuses to work 'a single hour' of overtime

Werner Herzog.

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Dreams took hold of Werner Herzog early in his life. Because that's all he had.

Born in Munich just before the Allies bombed it during World War II, Herzog and his family fled to a remote village in Bavaria and lived there in poverty for most of his childhood.

With no telephone, no running water, and definitely no television, the young Herzog had to use his mind to entertain himself. By his teens, he became drawn to the written word, putting the wild ideas in his mind on the page.