It is boring to have all the answers. Only political people have answers.

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.

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

Never say no. It always depends on what's possible. I don't care so much where it is; it's what I want to do that matters.

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

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.

To be perfectly honest, I think that as I'm growing older, I'm just growing more impatient. I'll be very happy if at some point people say, 'Michael's grown wiser and softer in his old age.' But we'll have to wait and see what my next project is.