I love Atlanta. It's a great city with great crews there.

I was born in Switzerland. Everyone thinks I'm Swiss, but I'm actually German. I'm from Germany.

All my favorite movies are American movies since I was a kid.

I think every filmmaker in Europe would be lying if they didn't say one day they just wanted to make a movie here in Hollywood or at least try it. It's very different from European filmmaking, because here it's like a real industry. It's very much about money and making money, which I think is fine, because it's very expensive to make movies.

If you're undercover for two or three years, I think you lose your private life.

In the end, you as a director, of course, are the captain on the ship. You have to say, "Well, we're sailing to the left and not to the right." But, you always have to listen to everyone, because I'm not always right and other people have great ideas, too. I think that makes great moviemaking.

I always give one actor an emotion to make it very easy so he or she can root to it.