Quote #67

Kinski walked off, packed all his things and was absolutely serious about quitting and leaving at once- he'd already broken his contract 40 or 50 times. I went up to him and said, 'You can't do this.' I told him I had a rifle and that he'd only make it as far as the first bend before he had eight bullets in his head- the ninth one would be for me.

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