Pola Kinski on Klaus Kinski

“I can't hear it anymore: 'Your father! Great! A genius! I always liked him.' The idolization has only gotten worse since his death.”

“The terrible thing is that he once told me that it was completely natural, that fathers all over the world did that with their daughters. He was paying for me to be his little sex object, placed on silk cushions.”

“As a child I always had to keep my mouth shut because he was always threatening me. And I was dependent on him, on his affection.”

“I've written a book about [Kinski's abuse] because I can no longer bear the fact that a person whose halo gets bigger from year to year is being glorified in this way.”

“When he died my mother [the singer Gislinde Kühlbeck], told me on the telephone and I felt nothing, neither a sense of sadness nor hate.”