:34:00
Suddenly he screamed like mad:
:34:02
"You pig!" meaning the
assistant camera man.
:34:05
"He grinned!"
:34:07
I was supposed to fire him at once.
:34:09
Of course I wouldn't fire him, or
else the whole team would leave.
:34:17
He suddenly packed his
things in dead earnest...
:34:21
...resolved to leave our location,
packing everything in a speedboat.
:34:25
I knew he had broken 30, 40,
50 contracts before this.
:34:30
Only shortly before he
had broken up a tour.
:34:33
He ruined theater engagements
and I knew he was leaving for good.
:34:40
I went up to him, very composed,
by the way, I was not armed...
:34:44
...later on, he tried to change
things around to save face.
:34:50
I went up to him and said:
"You can't do this.
:34:53
The movie is more important
than our personal emotions...
:34:57
...even more important
than our persons and...
:35:00
...this can't be permitted.
This simply will not be!"
:35:05
He said: "No, I'm leaving now".
:35:09
I told him, I had a rifle and by the
time he'd reach the next bend...
:35:17
...there'd be 8 bullets in his head
and the ninth one would be mine.
:35:22
He instinctively knew that this
wasn't a joke anymore.
:35:27
He screamed for the
police like a madman.
:35:31
However, the next police station
was at least 300 miles away.
:35:37
The press later wrote that I directed
him from behind the camera...
:35:41
...with a loaded rifle.
:35:44
Of course, this wasn't true...
:35:46
...but he was very disciplined during
the last days of shooting.
:35:51
The beast had been
domesticated after all...
:35:54
...and pressed into shape, so that
his true madness and energy...