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.

I'm not a citizen of America, I cannot vote. But it is fascinating because there's a new kind of protagonist out there that we didn't expect. By the way, I'm not in any panic at all.

Orson Welles, one of the best of the best. One of the strongest. As strong as an animal. He somehow was pushed out of the business because he would spend the entire budget of the film before he had even done half the pre-production.

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.

Film is not analysis, it is the agitation of mind; cinema comes from the country fair and the circus, not from art and academicism.

Of course, as a German, I wouldn't like to tell the American people how to handle their criminal justice.

Facts sometimes have a strange and bizarre power that makes their inherent truth seem unbelievable.