Marcelle Clements: KLAUS KINSKI & THE THING Is this man of strange and explosive power really the world's greatest actor?" Seite 7/10 "What? What is it you want to say?" Kinski queried when he saw me open my mouth several times. "There was something you mentioned the other day," I began, "about how money is freedom - " "I never said that," he assured me. "You did," I replied. "You said - " "No, no. I never said money is freedom! I said money buys freedom. BUYS! What does that mean, money is freedom? This is ridiculous: Money is freedom. It means nothing. What do you think, that a dollar in a savings account is freedom? Maybe you have understood nothing I have said. You are trying to make me sound like an American average citizen." His arguments in response to my questions were often semantic. Kinski hates words; he resents having to use them to express himself, he finds them untrustworthy, confining, reductive. "Experiencing the ocean is an experience of liberty," he told me, for example. "When you talk about the ocean, is it liberty? Even looking at the ocean is not liberty. It is like a wounded bird looking at the sky and saying, ,Why are my wings broken?' Or even worse: putting a bird cage near the window so that the bird can see the sky. But, of course, it's much better to look than not to, even if it hurts. But words - words are not enough!" "But sometimes," I said, "you can put them together to evoke a certain feeling." "But this is a consolation for cripples," said Kinski. "Yes, sometimes, spontaneously bringing words out can be outscreams - outscreams of joy or pain or whatever you want. Or sometimes you can describe. But you aren't there. When you are there, you are. With words, you aren't. It is true what Rimbaud said once; It's absolutely true; I proved lt. He said, ,If you think a book is strong enough, try It at the ocean, in the wind, at the waves. If the book can resist the ocean, the elements, then it exists. Otherwise, throw it away.'" © 1985 by Marcelle Clements and Playboy Enterprises Inc.

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