The idea of working with Steven Spielberg was very attractive. He's such a master. He knows the language of the camera and of filmmaking, which gives him a great freedom.

Spielberg knows his craft so well, he can also improvise, and that is a lot of fun.

I think English is a fantastic, rich and musical language, but of course your mother tongue is the most important for an actor

I like to play with things a while before annihilation.

I just feel I shouldn't work too much, because there are so many other things to do

Only very rarely are foreigners or first-generation immigrants allowed to be nice people in American films. Those with an accent are bad guys

I began imagining scenes in public which some drunk would come up to me and slap me in the face. Nothing like that ever happened, but I often wonder if I would have turned the other cheek