As a European filmmaker, you can not make a genre film seriously. You can only make a parody.

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

Film is the manipulative medium par excellence. When you think back on the history of film and the 20th century, you see the propaganda that's been made. So there are moral demands on the director to treat the spectators as seriously as he or she takes himself and not to see them merely as victims that can be manipulated to whatever ends they have.

Because I'm the author of my screenplays I know what I'm looking for. It's true that I can be stubborn in demanding that I get what I want, but it's also a question of working with patience and love.

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

To me, it's far more efficient to mobilize the imagination. It's far more efficient to hear a creaking step, for example, than to see the face of a monster, which usually looks ridiculous, and where you know that the blood is ketchup.

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