Last summer I was visiting my cousin Chris in Salt Lake City. One morning while having coffee, we happened to meet a friend of hers, film maker Jan Andrews, who told us this anecdote about Werner Herzog, when he was filming True Believers, about a religious group in Russia who lived around a lake.
These "true believers" were convinced that in the winter when the lake froze they could look through the ice and see a fallen city. In making the film, there was a scene where two men were on their knees peering through the ice. A young colleague of Jan Andrews was on hand when Herzog remarked that they were not members of the cult, but two drunken peasants that he paid to pose for the scene. The young filmmaker was appalled that Herzog would do such a thing.
Herzog looked directly at him and said, "Go Too Far."
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