When ideas lead to ideology, that's a very dangerous thing. Ideology then leads to creating the image of an enemy, and it leads to the murder and massacre.

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

When you create a church, an institution, and you create a dogma. When you create an ideology, that's the danger. Communism, too, is a beautiful idea, but millions of people died when communism became an ideology.

When ideas lead to ideology, that's a very dangerous thing. Ideology then leads to creating the image of an enemy, and it leads to the murder and massacre.

I want to be able to control things and that's very difficult to do if you're not 100% in a particular language. It makes you uncertain and it makes you nervous.

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

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.