"Werner had had a couple of drinks,” Cage said. “He said in this distraught voice, ‘The iguanas are the best thing in the movie. And I must have five minutes of iguana time! And if I don’t have my full five minutes of iguana time, I will never make another movie again!’ ” (Needless to say, the iguanas stayed in the picture.)"

Werner Herzog and Nicolas Cage: Partners in crime — latimes.com : Who cannot admire a man that would make such a statement.

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