I like to cook things very slowly.

The theater is a need for me. It's a terrible attraction, something I'm compelled to do. And one derives a form of nourishment from the theater which you can never get from films. Making films weakens you in some way. With the theater, the work itself is a regenerative process.

The last time I was on a small set would've been probably My Left Foot.

Germans don't speak in a German accent, they just speak German.

I'm not sure you learn anything on film sets.

I'm very often still very much alive for that other being and that other world long after the film is finished

I suppose that anyone who does any kind of creative work some time in their life - especially as you grow into middle age! - you come to a time where you really question more and more frequently, whether you have anything else to offer. And at its worst, you feel utterly bereft of whatever creative force it takes to do that work.