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Herzog and Kinski sitting in a tree

Mysterious German actor Klaus Kinski didn't LOVE Werner Herzog, but, uh, they worked well together.

Herzog is a miserable, hateful, malevolent, avaricious, money-hungry, nasty, sadistic, treacherous, blackmailing, cowardly, thoroughly dishonest creep. His so-called 'talent' consists of nothing but tormenting helpless creatures and, if necessary, torturing them to death or simply murdering them. He doesn't care about anyone or anything except his wretched career as a so-called filmmaker. Driven by a pathological addiction to sensationalism, he creates the most senseless difficulties and dangers, risking other people's safety and even their lives -just so he can eventually say that he, Herzog, has beaten seemingly unbeatable odds.

For his part, Herzog wasn't quite into Kinski either.

Incredible. I didn't know how to calm him down, and then I had an inspiration. I went to my hut, where, for months I had hidden a piece of chocolate. We would almost have killed one another for something like that. I went back to him, going right into his face and ate the chocolate. All of a sudden he was quiet. This was utterly beyond him.

Click through because there are about 10 more paragraphs of vitriol just like this.

(via Newsweek)

By Aaron Cohen    May 17, 2010 at 10:45 am    Klaus Kinski   Warner Herzog

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