If you don't find some way to discuss what's going on inside you, it can come out in other ways that are self-destructive.

I like movies that leave you with something to think about, to discuss, to debate, you know?

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.

Most movies are lucky to have one moment, one shot that you look at and you always remember that moment and that scene.

If you don't find some way to discuss what's going on inside you, it can come out in other ways that are self-destructive.

Kids accept where they are because they don't know the past. They know what they have; they know where they are.

I campaigned for [Dennis] Kucinich in 2008. I continue to be in touch with him and I really admire him. I think he's very brave and honest - unusually so for a U.S. politician.