You should look straight at a film; that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.

It's very strange, for example, in North Korea where the volcano at the Chinese border is some sort of the mythical birthplace of the Korean people.

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

Women have a very good sense for seeing instantly what constitutes a good man. Not physically. The physical strength is only a small side of it.

I don't see poetry as something that has to do with too much emotion anyway. It has to do with language.

Without dreams we would be cows in a field, and I don't want to live like that. I live my life or I end my life with this project.

Netflix knew I was going to North Korea and Ethiopia and Iceland. They saw the film and liked it and that was that.