As a private person, professionally I am invisible.

Like every filmmaker, I make my films to reach the widest audience possible.

My mother as a young girl went out with a young SS officer and she didn't really know what was going on - she just liked the uniform. When he told her about the things that he did, she was disgusted and broke up with him.

It's a disease of critics that once they've labeled someone, it's very hard to change their perspective. It's laziness.

As a private person, professionally I am invisible.

If I tell the audience what they should think, then I am robbing them of their own imagination and their own capacity of deciding what's important to them.

And if there was one title that could be applied to all my films, it would be 'Civil War' - not civil war in the way we know it, but the daily war that goes on between us all.