funny one when herzog decided to remake bad lieutenant...
Herzog on Ferrara: 'I've never seen a film by him. I have no idea who he is.'
Ferrara on Herzog: 'I wish these people die in Hell. I hope they're all in the same streetcar and it blows up.'
I enjoy this sort of thing, but also think they're complete twats for saying it. You get it with writers too, claiming they've never read or liked something that's obviously been an influence on them.
There's a Letterboxd review of
The Addiction, the vampire one Rich is on about, with some hilarious quotes from his director's commentary;
"We had to do one black and white film, man."
"There ain't no fuckin' extras. This is the street. You think I'm directing these people? We shoot in the street bro, what the fuck? You think we're casting these people, this is fuckin' New York!"
"This is pre-Uber New York, dog"
"You gotta give the vampire shit credit. Who would even come up with that?"
"That might be an actress, I don't know."
"This is Kodak at it's peak!"
"I'm looking to do a film about Auschwitz"
"Stay wide, bro."
"That's real blood, that's real insertion."
"Put the shades on your lead actor and your film goes to a whole other dimension"