Udo Kier

“Blood for Dracula. Let me tell you the story. I was in an airplane from Rome to Munich and there was a man sitting next to me. He said, 'My name is Paul Morrissey and I work for Andy Warhol.' Later he came in and he said, 'Well, I guess we have a German Dracula.' I had only salad leaves and water and when we shot the first day of Dracula, I was so weak that I had to sit in the wheelchair. I need the blood of a virgin, the blood of these whores are killing me!”

“I got a call, 'Hey, it's Paul. I'm doing for Carlo Ponti, you know the husband of Sophia Loren, I'm doing Frankenstein in 3D. And I have a little role for you.' And I said, 'Wow, thank you, great, what do I play?' And he said, 'Frankenstein.' And I thought that's not true. Anyway, it was true and I became Doctor Frankenstein. We shot the film for $100,000 in 3 weeks in 3D.”

“Another story. I was in Berlin and a young director came to me. He said, 'My name is Gus Van Sant. My next movie, My Own Private Idaho, I'm preparing now and I would like that you play.' And we start writing letters to each other. I went to Portland to shoot my first film in America. I liked America and River Phoenix was amazing and Keanu Reeves. That was My Own Private Idaho, very important for me. I'm a lucky man.”