Usually music is used to hide a film's problems.

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

You'll see more violence in any television crime series than you will in my films Art is there to have a stimulating effect, if it earns its name. You have to be honest, that's the only thing.

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.

In German. I'm more sensitized to the details, to the emotions. In English, I wouldn't detect as much nuance.

A strict form such as mine cannot be achieved through improvisation.

Film is 24 lies per second at the service of truth, or at the service of the attempt to find the truth.