People are essentially red meat. They are.

People are going to behave however the social norms permit, and beyond that.

Yeah, I don't deal with current events or pop culture, and I avoid politics like the plague.

Milkmen seem so wholesome, and there's no way anybody can be that wholesome.

I grew up in a military family, and there's something about that military-style uniform, all cleaned up, a brutal control effort the military necessarily breeds.

People get really caught up in their own trips.

I am too old for an eyebrow piercing but too young for an eyebrow lift.

I'm just trying to portray what I find ironic or humorous.

I was doing illustration work, and the cartooning slowly took over.

We all have our pet things that we like to get religious about.

We live in a society that blames everybody else for what's wrong.

I'm an elephant today. I will need to have lots of room and also a bowl of water on the floor.

Our present political world-view, current in Germany, is based in general on the idea that creative, culture-creating force must indeed be attributed to the state.

I'm an old guitar player who has fallen into television and is so happy he did.

I've never taken a role where I don't like a person on the page. Sometimes there are changes that need to be made.

I can create countries just as I can create the actions of my characters. That is why a lot of travel seems to me a waste of time.

For me, as a documentary filmmaker, I'm interested in telling stories of real people whose experiences tell us something about ourselves or our history, or who we are and our potential.

Good satire hopefully provides thought-provoking conversation.

When that man wants something, he'll stop at nothing to get it. And I also believed in the good of him.

Those who control the wealth of this society have an influence over political life far in excess of their number.

People come up to me and share very personal and intimate things with me, and I am so touched by all the trust they have in me.