I invite any sort of myths [about myself] because I like the stooges and doppelgangers and doubles out there. I feel protected behind all these things. Let them blossom! I do not plant them, I do not throw out the seeds. I advise you to read Herzog on Her...
There are certainly laws and elements that make a film more accessible to mainstream audiences. If you`ve got Tom Cruise as a strongman, I`m sure it would have larger audiences, but it wouldn`t have the same substance.
On Klaus Kinski: "People think we had a love-hate relationship. Well, I did not love him, nor did I hate him. We had mutual respect for each other, even as we both planned each other`s murder".
Your film is like your children. You might want a child with certain qualities, but you are never going to get the exact specification right. The film has a privilege to live its own life and develop its own character. To suppress this is dangerous. It is...
[During the making of Fitzcarraldo (1982)] I shouldn`t make movies anymore. I should go to a lunatic asylum.
