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I don't care about that scum! Why should I receive a prize? I know that I'm a genius!
Westerns. One after another. They get shittier and shittier, and the so-called directors get lousier and lousier. And the more incompetent they are, the more hostile they act.
Kinski Uncut : The Autobiography of Klaus Kinski (1996)
The flamenco of the Gypsy has nothing to do with the flamenco for tourists. Real flamenco is like sex.
Kinski Uncut : The Autobiography of Klaus Kinski (1996)
The street kid in me says, "Grab the money and run - who cares who it's from! Don't think about whatever you have to do for it or when you have to do it!"
Kinski Uncut : The Autobiography of Klaus Kinski (1996)
The shooting is one long battle against the aggressive obstinacy of the "directress" bitch and her clod of a cameraman - and the two of them stick solidly together in their obduracy.
Kinski Uncut : The Autobiography of Klaus Kinski (1996)
Because of him, I never knew anything other than passion. When I began to meet other people I saw that it wasn’t normal.
Werner, nobody will read this book if I don't write bad stuff about you. If I wrote that we get along well together, nobody would buy it. The scum only wants to hear about the dirt, all the time.
What they teach in these acting schools is incredible, hair-raising crap... How can you "teach" someone to be an actor? How can you teach someone how and what to feel and how to express it?
I don't shake the hand of a Jewish pig. I'm German and Jews sicken me.
Sergio Corbucci (1993)
Why do I continue making movies? Making movies is better than cleaning toilets.
At sixteen I get drafted. When I read the draft notice, I cry. Not because I'm a coward - I'm not afraid of anyone. But I don't want to kill or be killed.
Kinski Uncut : The Autobiography of Klaus Kinski (1996)
Working with a great director is wonderful for an actor because it means that you're not forced to take the advice of an idiot.
I don't try to justify myself or defend myself. I've always done what I had to. She should know for herself that I love her, that I've loved her always, always. Those years you can't replace by words, though. After years and years, words get weaker and weaker.
No outsider can imagine the stupidity, blustering hysteria, authoritarianism, and paralyzing boredom of shooting a flick for Billy Wilder. The so-called "actors" are simply trained poodles who sit up on their hind legs and jump through hoops. I thought the insanity would never stop. But I got a shitload of money.
Kinski Uncut : The Autobiography of Klaus Kinski (1996)
ASSHOLES! Do you ask a car crash for another take? Do you ask a volcano for another take? Do you ask the storm for another take?
And then the hysteria over these crummy prizes! And it's only a gang of twelve lousy jurors who actually imagine they're sitting in judgement (their supreme wish!). If they had their druthers, they'd be weighing the life and death of a human being. There's so much gossip about my getting (yet another) prize. It's like the cattle market, where the bulls get prizes for their dicks and the cows for their udders.
Kinski Uncut : The Autobiography of Klaus Kinski (1996)
Steven Spielberg offers me a part in Raiders of the Lost Ark... But as much as I'd like to do a movie with Spielberg, the script is as moronically shitty as so many other flicks of this ilk. At the same time, Claude Lelouch is nagging me to do his Les Uns et les Autres (Bolero). I'd be willing to do this project, but not for the shabby pittance that this rat offers me.
Kinski Uncut : The Autobiography of Klaus Kinski (1996)
Just why are we so poor? Why can I never sleep at night? Because bombs keep dropping! Why does my mother have to torture herself like that? Why didn't anyone give my dad a break? Why is there a war? Why? Why? Why?
Kinski Uncut : The Autobiography of Klaus Kinski (1996)