I believe the common denominator of the Universe is not harmony, but chaos, hostility and murder.

The paintings are not just on flat walls - you have these enormous niches, bulges and protrusions, as well as stalactites and stalagmites. The effect of the three-dimensionality is phenomenal. It's a real drama which the artists of the time understood, and they used it for the drama of their paintings.

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.

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

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

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

Hold firm to your vision but don't be a tyrant on set.