1:16:02
I will build an opera!
1:16:05
I want to have an opera!
1:16:25
I knew, if I didn't get him, I'd have
to change body and role with him.
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I thank God on my knees that I
didn't have to and that Kinski did it.
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We had a blessed one
working there, and I am truly glad.
1:16:48
I met him in New York
and he was just great.
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I was devastated, and he opened
a bottle of champagne and said:
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"I knew it, Werner, I knew
I would be Fitzcarraldo.
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I am Fitzcarraldo and
you're not going to be him...
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...because I'm much better
than you.
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Of course he was right.
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But when I brought him to this site,
he saw how steep the terrain was.
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His heart sank, and he thought, for
God's sake, this can't be done.
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He saw it at once.
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Our task was, to heave an
Amazon steamboat bit by bit...
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...across that thing there.
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Do you see that red cliff there?
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Yes, I see it.
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That must be it!
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Good. We can't go much further,
or we'll run into a sandbank.
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That slope may look insignificant...
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...but it's going to be my destiny.
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Strangely enough, he later became
the strongest negative force...
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...which worked to break up the
project or at least change it.