:08:00
I was not extraordinary!
:08:03
I was monumental!
:08:06
I was epochal!"
:08:09
All this made a very deep
impression on me then...
:08:14
...and that I would work with him
later and make five feature films...
:08:18
You would never
have thought that.
:08:21
No, that was never on
my horizon at the time.
:08:24
It was beyond my
furthest thoughts.
:08:26
Did he ever have any training as
an actor while he was here?
:08:32
He was self-taught.
:08:34
At times you could hear him in
his closet, for ten hours non-stop...
:08:39
...doing his voice and
speaking-exercises.
:08:43
It was absolutely incredible.
:08:46
He pretended to be a genius who
had fallen straight from heaven...
:08:51
...and who had obtained his
gift by the grace of God.
:08:54
in reality, it was incredible, how
much he trained himself.
:08:59
At that time, during his poetry
recitals, he still had this artificial...
:09:04
...theater intonation of the Fifties,
a kind of a snorting snarl.
:09:10
He mastered it to perfection.
:09:15
And this is where I lived with him...
:09:17
...and so knew what to expect,
if I was to work with him.
:09:23
...saltpeter, blazing
phosphorous...
:09:28
...in the urine of a
donkey in heat...
:09:32
...in snakes' poison,
old hags' spittle...
:09:35
...in dog shit and
foul bath-water...
:09:40
...in wolf's milk, gall of o xen
and flooded latrines.
:09:47
in this juice...
:09:50
...thou shalt stew
the slanderers.
:09:55
in a tomcat's brain
who ceased to fish...
:09:59
...in the foam that dribbles
from the teeth of rabid dogs...