Last Saturday I conducted a phone interview with Werner Herzog, who was in San Francisco promoting his new film "Into the Abyss." He seemed in good spirits, that despite the fact that, as I learned later, the city had just undergone an earthquake.

I guess it was an "insignificant" earthquake (3.2 on the Richter scale), like the bullet he described as "insignificant" when he was shot in an on-the-air interview