As a director, you can transform your vision more with the music.

When an audience is laughing, that's opening their souls somehow, and when you have an audience with an open soul, it's much better to hit them with a knife.

Germans try to categorize films: in a comedy, you just laugh and in a drama, you're not allowed to laugh. I don't believe in that, sometimes we laugh and cry in the same hour.

Whenever I'm making a feature film, I wish I were filming a documentary, because making feature films is so stressful. It happens every time.

I like it when actors depart from the script to find their characters.

Maybe every two films you need to do documentary to tell what you really want to tell and not be limited by the medium. With documentary you don't create the reality you have to hunt the reality.

Fiction is my home, I came from fiction, I like to tell stories.

I don't like violence in movies, I'm not a kind of Tarantino fan. But sometimes it's necessary.

I always listen to music when I write, I need a rhythm to write.

Once I start shooting I forget the scriptwriter in me. I like things flowing. If you have talented actors who bring their own ideas, it can be much better than what you have worked out.

It's like I'm thirteen again and he's my crush. All I'm aware of in this entire roomful of people is him. Where he is, what he's doing, who he's talking to.

People don't expect too much from literature. They just want to know they're not alone with being confused.

Don't play his game. Play yours.

Don’t let your principles sit idle on a plaque. Bring them to life.

Truth be told, you gotta dance barefoot if you really want to feel the earth move.

Twelve for 23... It doesn't take a genius to see that's under 50 percent.

The power of an aroused public is unbeatable.

Often I pretended to a cameraman to know less than I did. That way I got more cooperation.

And the thing which is missing is love, some feeling for, as well as some understanding of, the inclusive community of rocks and soils, plants and animals, of which we are a part.

The psychoanalysts pick our dreams as if they were our pockets.