Werner Herzog interview: ‘Our culture of complaint disgusts me’

Werner Herzog does not want to compare himself to Ernest Hemingway or Joseph Conrad – the “immortals”, as he calls them – but he is in no doubt about the literary merit of his new memoir, Every Man for Himself and God Against All. “There’s prose of an intensity that you do not see anywhere in literature nowadays,” he tells me in the solemn, aphoristic tones familiar from the voice-overs of his many documentaries. “No one writes prose like me.”