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

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

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

That is one of the characteristics of fascism, the idea that the state can provide all of the answers for everyone.

If I'm reading a book that doesn't leave me with questions, moving questions, that I feel confronted with, then for me it's a waste of time. I don't want to read a book that simply confirms what I already know.

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

Of course I am a child of European culture. There are a number of great directors from which I learned, but there is nobody in particular I got inspired from.