Backtracking a bit: Unless you absolutely, positively have to see everything starring Christian Bale, I'd say pass on Rescue Dawn. Started out kinda interesting, but then goes south…waaayyyyy south in my opinion. (I did appreciate Steve Zahn's performance, though.) My wife's nuts for Werner Herzog movies, and even she was disappointed. There was a profile on Herzog in The New Yorker that covered the period when he was making that film; I think he had some trouble with the producers…pressure to make it big box-office, which really isn't his thing.

VD: what did you think about Nil by Mouth?

I watched in in college and was pretty stunned by its brutality - and I'm not exactly soft when it comes to that sort of thing.

I found Harsh Times to be a very good movie actually. I think his character was very interesting. I suppose it helps that I feel I've met his character in real life.