I now realize that I was very fortunate to have grown up in many different places, surrounded by all kinds of people, all kinds of points of view.

I try to research or make up for myself what happened in any character's life. From when he was born until the first page of the script. I fill in the blanks.

When I have a day off, I won't spend it at a Hollywood party. I'd rather be at home with paints and a blank canvas.

It's always interesting to play a character that obviously has a secret.

Sometimes a scene works and acting is the easiest thing in the world and you don't have to do much of anything - just enjoy yourself and listen to the other actor. When it doesn't work, then every actor has different ways of dealing with the impasse. Sometimes you use memories from the past. Whatever. It depends from job to job.

I don't like the 'must', the 'always', and the 'never' words. I don't like 'no' either.

At the end of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century in Austria, there was a lot of anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitism in Austria was much more pervasive than in Germany. And Austrians took to Nazi ideas and anti-Semitism much more readily than Germans did, really.