Gaining trust is not difficult for me. I needed to gain the trust of the North Korean supervisors.

The universe couldn't care less about us. I say this very clearly in the film [ "Into the Inferno"]: our planet is "indifferent to scurrying roaches, retarded reptiles and vapid humans alike."

I've never left my culture. I've left my country, but I've not left my culture. In the same way, you shouldn't be worried why George Lucas is going to the outer galaxy to make a movie. He's still making a film within his culture; he's making an American film. I go to Thailand or the Peruvian jungle, the Amazon, and I still make Bavarian films.

With actors, normally I don't like to have any conversation about background and about motivations and all this.

Strangely enough, there's this mythology sprouting out that I cannot stop.

[Internet] is amazing as much as human beings can be amazing, and it's debased and depraved and vile as human beings can be.

I have learned a lot through defeats, and, until today, it's - I'm still haunted by defeats, and they do happen. Sometimes, a film of mine is rejected. And how do you deal with it? And you have to learn how to deal with it and survive anyway.