I do other sorts of things. I act in other people's movies. I direct operas. I write books.

It doesn't matter whether you shoot on celluloid or on digital, you better make a good film.

I cannot work fast enough. I cannot cope fast enough, really. And just releasing a film is hard.

Everyone who makes films has to be an athlete to a certain degree because cinema does not come from abstract academic thinking; it comes from your knees and thighs.

I think it is a quest of literature throughout the ages to describe the human condition.

In Germany, you would be hanged if you cracked a joke about Hitler and you would be killed by the state if you were insane in a project of euthanasia.

If I had to climb into hell and wrestle the devil himself for one of my films, I would do it.