He was a pestilence every day... but who cares? I mean, what remains is the film. ... There has never been a man in cinema who had such a presence, such a ferocious intensity on the screen.

Actually his ideas about nature were rather insipid. Mosquitoes were not allowed in his jungle, nor was rain.

I needed Kinski for a few more shots, so I turned them down. I have always regretted that I lost that opportunity.

You should look straight at a film; that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.