Klaus Kinski, his style and David Lean

I found this tidbit in an interview with David Schmoeller, who directed Kinski in Crawlspace:

My prop master was British – and I think he was the one who coined the phrase; “Please kill Mr. Kinski…” – as if to politely request the demise of this tyrant we had on the set. This same prop master had worked with Kinski on David Lean’s Doctor Zhivago (I show that clip in the doc) – and he told me the story about that scene – where Kinski is on the train chained to a post – and declares his freedom. My prop master said that after they shot that sequence, they broke for lunch – and the prop master went up to David Lean – and said: “Mr. Kinski is still chained. What do you want to do?” and Lean said: “Leave him.” – because he had caused so much trouble…even as a bit player. My prop master had no reason to make up this incident. He was just telling me that Kinski gave every director trouble.