I think in Europe, movies are made like a commodity and then sold as art.

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

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

It's the economics, that's why opera is not dying but gets more and more difficult to put on.

What I liked so much while shooting [a movie], I might not like anymore when I see it or vice versa. The two are connected but not on a causal level.

What it really is and what I now have experienced is that, people who take enormous pride in what they're doing - not in their person - that their work ethos is as high as nowhere else.That they love their jobs, they love to do their jobs properly as best they can. And coupled with the financial umph, you know, you get decent results.

I have nothing to do with comics. I know nothing about comics. I am aware of the importance of comics, but they're not within my world. Not because I feel that I'm above it, but just that micro-surgery is not in my world either. Is that a deficit or is that an advantage?