Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (1980)

Michael Goodwin: Driver, Interviewer

Quotes 

• Driver : Is this anything like the time that you swore to throw yourself into a cactus plant at the end of "Even Dwarfs Started Small"?

  Werner Herzog : No. That was a different story. I had the feeling they were quite in danger. One was hit by the car, the car ran over him and the same little guy caught fire when we watered the flower pots with gasoline and set them afire. A flame they - he caught fire and I extinguished him with my body. I threw myself on him. And when he was extinguished I told him "I'm gonna jump into a cactus if you all survive."