I'm far more relaxed with German. I'm a control freak. I like to know exactly who's saying and doing what.

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

It's unbearable when someone changes around you. Just imagine that your life partner changes, then it is difficult to cope with. Or your mother. Or your father. They were strong and now they're like a baby - it's not so funny.

What we're doing for another person is more important than what we're feeling for them.

I try to get closer to reality, to get close to the contradictions. The cinema world can be a real world rather than a dream world.

It became a gamble to myself whether I was able to do the exact same film ["Funny Games"]under very different circumstances.

I think that religion is an integral part of human needs, but the question also is how you understand religion.