I Can't Explain Why This Is So Funny To Me

German director Werner Herzog visited the production on What Dreams May Come. He toured the sets and agreed to have a cameo. As Robin Williams' character searches through a Hell straight out of Dante's Inferno, he comes across the Sea of Faces. One of the faces belongs to this famous director. Herzog was heard to exhort Robin Williams to step on his face harder, which Williams politely declined. "Come on!" said Herzog. "You could break my glasses, maybe?"

Just the thought of Werner Herzog trying to get Robin Williams to step on his face harder, is the sort of thing that can only be imagined in the context of "Hollywood". Of course, this is the man who once publicly challenged that if one of his film students, Errol Morris, made a documentary about pet cemeteries, he'd eat his own shoe.

I point you to this.

And this.