>> exactly. >> jon: that's what's so, i think, incredible about this book. this is not to minimize other people's experiences because i've read, there have been some memoirs of journalists or other people who have been imprisoned in totalitarian regimes and other places. your ability to connect it to your family and just the nuances of what you pick up even from your captors. you know, you talk about this fellow rosewater that was your interrogator and your torturer. his father had also been in prison. it's such an interesting synchronicity that you were able to remember. how did you keep these things in your mind to be able to chronicle them? >> the thing is that when you're under a lot of pressure, you have to create an inner universe for yourself. you have to shield yourself inside. so you have the physical pressure and of course you have the psychological pressure. but there is something inside

you that you keep intact. when someone is charging you with such exaggerated accusations like, you know, most of your audience don't know.... >> jon: we're going to go to a commercial. before we go, i do want to say in the spirit of full disclosure. this is how impressed i am with this man's story and his courage in this book. you and i are working together on a film about this. that we're going to use and i've suggested obviously matt damon as you. again, it's up to you. the casting will be up to you. >> i was thinking about will smith. >> jon: on the book shelves now. the rest of this we'll put up on the webb. maziar bahari. take a look at the

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( theme song playing ) ( applause ) >> stephen: yeah, yeah, oh, yeah, this is good stuff. welcome to the report. thank you so much, everybody. >> stephen, stephen, stephen! stephen, stephen, stephen! stephen, stephen, stephen! >> stephen: thank you, ladies and gentlemen. good to have you with us. nation, this is one of those rare days that make me proud to be a newsman. to report history as it happens. because i think we will all remember where we were when we found out that this is, in fact, anthony weiner's [bleep]. (cheers and applause)

>> stephen: i know, it's shocking. he's so thin. naked he must look like a windsock hanging off a parking meter. now he said this wasn't him. but today at an emergency press conference the truth came out, like a-- (laughter) like a dolphin wiggling free of a blanket. jim. >> last friday night i tweeted a photograph of myself that i intended to send as a direct message as part of a joke to a woman in seattle. once i realized i had posted it to twitter i panicked, took it down an said that i had been hacked. >> stephen: he lied! for ten days. and only came clean today when additional photos like this were released. (laughter) >> stephen: i mean that is actually understandable. the guy's my age and he's film,f

forgotten dreams in 3-d. >> our time is even more constricted in this location and there's no possibility to get close to the paintings.

>> unfortunately, there are things you won't be able to show in your film and you won't be able to see. you can't get closer. that is the case with these absolutely marvelous paintings in the farthest chamber, this grouping of lines it is especially the case with this where the lower portion of a woman's body has been changed. >> stephen: oh my god, even cavemen sent obscene tweets. please welcome werner herzog. (cheers and applause) >> stephen: whooo, whooo, good to see you, mr. herzog. >> thank you. >> stephen: now, sir, this movie is called cave of forgotten dreams. now explain to the people exactly what is this cave, and where is it? >> well, it's in the south of france. it was discovered about 16 years ago. and it turned out that it

was the oldest, it contained the oldest paintings ever, ever discovered. >> stephen: how old are they opinions 32,000, maybe 35,000 years back in time. and of absolute incredible quality. >> stephen: how could a painting be 32,000 years old if the entire world is only 6,000 years old. >> well, this is a mighty good question but i think these people were very, very ingenuous and well adapted. they painted wonderful animals. they created music. they created ivory statuettes, venus statuettes. unbelievable. >> stephen: really? is this cave porn? >> not really but i-- more people come to the movie if you say cave porn. >> no, i do believe that

these very intelligent people invented god but it took god awhile to grow up and create the world. (laughter) >> stephen: i don't usually have guests this deep. you shook me there for a second. are you saying these people actually were creating-- these are incredible work of art. >> the pantings are of such-- it's incredible quality. it never got better in roman and in greek antiquities, never got better in the masons time t never got better until picasso. it never got any better. >> stephen: it got bet we are picasso? he's the one who through in extra titties every place. he can't count how many he through in there. >> i personally have some doubts about picasso myself. >> stephen: let me ask you a sensitive question here. are you making any of this stuff up? because you have caused some

flack for your documentaries because you sometimes make stuff up. or you say, intensified. and i do that every night right under that lens over there. i made up some crazy stuff. and i don't care if they knows what's what. >> well, in cave of forgotten dream there is a postscript that all of a sudden you see radioactive albino crocodiles. in the fill am. i called the producer from when i was sorting and i said-- he was in a pet store in vancouver and had just had bought a cage for a hamster. and he said i'm just bought a cage of a hamster and i said i'm filming all bina mut ant crocodiles, radioactive crocodiles. and i hear this clatter. he dropped the cage and said, you are shooting what? and i said i'm shooting all bina crocodiles. and they will be in the film. so it is a wild science ficon