I don't like to think that maybe I'm just getting old. I'm not too excited about watching a huge explosion. I'm more interested in people and characters.

Betrayal... is my favorite subject.

I think all Nazis didn't see themselves as bad people. I've never met a racist yet who thought he was a racist. Or an anti-Semite who thought they were anti-Semitic.

When you deal with a film that takes place in Europe, and you're going to work in English, you'd better work with European actors.

I mean they're making remakes of my films and I'm not even dead yet! Why would you want to make a remake?

In America there's no rights for the artist, so whatever films I've made kind of belong to the studio.

The eradication of anti-personnel mines around the world is one of the most important tasks facing the international community.