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

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 fero…

It was worthwhile for what you see on the screen. Who cares if every grey hair on my head I call 'Kinski'?

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