I studied fascism when I was at university. My husband's family are German Jews. I'm very close to his grandma and she left Berlin when she was 19 in 1937. So, it's kind of all around me.

Try and withhold your judgment, because as soon as you think you know something, you're shutting down.

Every film you do, you always look at it and you think, "I could do better," but I'm never going to tell people what I could do better. I think it's up to them to make up their own mind.

The biggest challenge was to make sure that we are looking at things honestly and truthfully. We weren't making an apologist film. That was the toughest part.

I'm a really judgmental person, and it just dumbs everything down. It doesn't create any room for interrogation or investigation.

The happening that happened was that I met this girl ...

With hindsight, we see that the Soviet Union never had a chance of world domination, but we didn't know that then.

I hate formal stuff. I love looking like a doll and all that stuff and playing dress up, but when I'm home, sweat pants, t-shirt. When I'm in the studio, sweat pants, t-shirt.

The Annex is an ideal place to hide in. It may be damp and lopsided, but there's probably not a more comfortable hiding place in all of Amsterdam. No, in all of Holland.

Once you have the statement, it will design itself.

There's no such thing as autobiography, there's only art and lies

Take away your opinion, and then there is taken away the complaint, 'I have been harmed.' Take away the complaint, 'I have been harmed,' and the harm is taken away.

You can always tell who went to catholic school, because they're atheists.

That's the beauty of the future. We get to change it.

I don't hate my enemies. After all, I made 'em.