Becoming an actor is like becoming a father. It's not hard to become one. Making a life of it is the challenge.

I'm not really all that familiar with comic book culture. Not because I'm such a high brow intellectual and bloody European. But it's just something that I was never into. Not because of any superiority. I don't know why.

By looking into more details of American history, we can make more sense of what's happening today.

You can't always do the extraordinary, in between you have to do the ordinary. Because if you didn't, what would constitute the extraordinary?

I take praise as not just a reward and a result but also as the beginning of a new process.

There is quite an important director in Germany who I think in the early fifties over here, and then went back, and he said something that's absolutely true. And it's more important to repeat that today than it ever was. Not for you, but for us over there it is important. He said, 'In America they make movies like art, and sell it like commodities. We make make movies like commodities and sell them like art.'

You know, I don't support esoteric approaches to acting.