I decided a long time ago but sometimes it takes you 40 years to get around to doing something - and that's the truthful answer.

Depressed, anxious, sad, frightened? Yes. But I've never been bored.

Next to that kid, we all look like onions.

Now, I'm simply working with people I want to work with. I just want to have good working experiences and let the dice fall where they may.

This is not a movie about smelling the urine! It's another kind of movie." Volker Schlöndorff got Billy Wilder to agree to these conversations - you can buy it - because Volker spoke German at times. And he said to Billy Wilder: "What is in your mind?" And he said: "If you're going to try to tell the truth to the audience, you'd better be funny or they'll kill you." And I haven't forgotten that.

If you're waiting for the job, you're dead.

Life is an occasion...rise to it.