Film and Bullets

Kinski left the set and started packing his things, saying he was going to get into a speedboat and leave. I went up to him very calmly and said, "You can not do this. You can not leave the film before it is finished."

I told him I had a rifle and that he would only make it as far as the next bend in the river before he had eight bullets in his head. The ninth would be for me. He instinctively knew that this was not a joke anymore and screamed for the police like a madman. He knew that I was serious, and for the remaining ten days of the shoot he was very docile and well behaved.

(Werner Herzog about Klaus Kinski, Behind the scene Aguirre, The Wrath of God)

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