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In 1970, during the making of your film “Even Dwarves Started Small” in Lanzarote, the actors kept having accidents, so you promised to jump onto a cactus if everyone survived the filming.
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Herzog: It was meant to cheer everyone up because the actors had survived all sorts of accidents without serious injury. The smallest of the Lilliputians, for example, caught fire and we all just stood there staring at him like a Christmas tree until I put it out. And then I thought that I should give the actors something for their family albums: an act of beauty. Like when kids on snowboards leap into the air and strike a pose.
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Herzog: It was meant to cheer everyone up because the actors had survived all sorts of accidents without serious injury. The smallest of the Lilliputians, for example, caught fire and we all just stood there staring at him like a Christmas tree until I put it out. And then I thought that I should give the actors something for their family albums: an act of beauty. Like when kids on snowboards leap into the air and strike a pose.
— herzog (via owlforeigner)
