Film is a two dimensional thing - it goes up and down and left to right but if you put that music into that two dimensional medium, it became like a third, fourth, and fifth dimension, I really believe in that.

As a director, you can transform your vision more with the music.

Once I start shooting I forget the scriptwriter in me. I like things flowing. If you have talented actors who bring their own ideas, it can be much better than what you have worked out.

I always listen to music when I write, I need a rhythm to write.

I shot many scenes of Hamburg, albums full of postcard motifs, and I discarded almost all of them. I ride my bike through Hamburg every day. I go shopping here, I go to the doctor - and yet I no longer have the eye for telling stories about this damn city, even though I love it.

I don't like violence in movies, I'm not a kind of Tarantino fan. But sometimes it's necessary.

Whenever I'm making a feature film, I wish I were filming a documentary, because making feature films is so stressful. It happens every time.