Family is becoming more and more important to me.

I feel as if sometimes women can't deal with what's going on and they have no one around who actually understands.

Being German, I think we don't really express a lot of things.

I'm intrigued more and more by complex female characters because I'm more in touch with myself. I realize how screwed up or complex I am. And I'm flattered that, little by little, more and more directors want to meet me.

Above all, I dislike vulgarity.

I don't make movies thinking: 'Oh, this is going to be a huge box-office hit.'

I get offered a World War II movie at least once a week just because I speak German and was born there. I have always stayed away from it because I didn't want to be put into that box.