From Herzog on Herzog (Ed. Paul Cronin):
“I did not want to go somewhere overly fancy and so I chose Pittsburgh, a place where there were real working people and steel mills. But by the time I arrived in the early 1960s the city was already heavily in decline. The steel mills were shutting down and life for many people was falling apart. Only three days after I arrived I returned my scholarship and as such ended up with no money, no host family and no passage back home.
I did not know there was such a difference in quality between American universities, and felt that the one I had chosen [the University of Pittsburgh] was a bad place for me to be.”
I’m suddenly dying to see Herzog’s documentary short How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck (1976), which is set in my hometown of Lancaster, Pennsylvania . . .
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