Pina Bausch's motto was "Dance, otherwise we are lost." She really meant it, that dance was her answer to life and to the troubles and to the problems that can arise. That was her way to deal with everything, to dance.

Filmmakers and critics wrote about each other and sometimes very harshly. This no longer exists.

Filmmaking is really connected to life and all of the expressions that different arts found to allow access to life. Filmmaking touches on all of it.

Sex and violence was never really my cup of tea; I was always more into sax and violins.

Every photo, every 'ONCE' in time is also the beginning of a story starting 'once upon a time...' Every photo is the first frame of a movie.

I sometimes feel fiction is the ideal preservation for real memories. Fiction is such a good place to keep things.

In books they don't have deleted scenes, like with DVDs. You could have your deleted scene in a book as well!