If you don't read, you will never be a filmmaker.

I think I would be a good villain in a James Bond movie.

You have to be completely open to what people would tell you. You do not shape them; you do not force the materials into your ideas. You have to have all windows and doors open.

I have not seen a film as powerful, surreal, and frightening in at least a decade unprecedented in the history of cinema.

I do whatever pushes me hardest. It's coming at me and I try to... it's like uninvited guest and I have to wrestle them out the door or through the window - get them out and get over with them quickly.

Only the poets can hold the country together, and I wanted to hold Germany together.

I don't dabble, I'm good at acting.