We see everything, we see what's going on in Syria, we see what's going on with the refugees. What can you do about it? And we have to do something.

Animals are always goddesses and gods, like the god Anubis. He's the one who's accompanying the souls to the next life, and he's the one who decides if they will be able to cross or not.

Animals are also the ones that are guarding the graves, and they are the ones who communicate between the dead and the alive.

I always start with reality, in anything I do, everything I do, I always start from something real.

I go and film 50 people in Israel, 50 people in Russia, and 50 people in Romania, in Paris, because I really like to get some particles of something real.

You can feel that something terrible is going on in another place in the world, and it's the other, it's not you. It's always there, it's them. But this them is also you.

I think that the world is in a very serious decline - very, very serious.

We are getting used to levels of violence, we are getting used to seeing these horrific things going on all the time. I think it's tough. It's rough.

That's what animals do all of the time; they watch out, they watch out, and I saw, "This is us now." Us, the world, we are watching out.

I usually go to bed early to read. I read and I always say that I'm not a "bohemian artist;" I need to read for one or two hours in the evening, and the quiet, so I don't hang out a lot.

I carry some kind of consideration and weight and observations about what is going on in the world, but I don't go to execute it.

It has been said that life only gives us what we can handle. But this is not the case. Life often kills us, that's the truth. But that's how phoenixes are born.

O ill-starred wench! Pale as your smock!

The chicken is the country's but the city eats it.

He that resolves to mend hereafter, resolves not to mend now.

Managing your time really means managing yourself. If your time is out of control, it means you are out of control.

If one is not productive in other spheres, one is not productive in the love either.

I did that all the more, if I may say so, because I was aware of the fact that there is an inclination to go to extremes in German people, and in the German character generally.

People are proud of their players.

We are the source of our problems not mysterious sinister foreigners overseas.

I built websites for myself. I didn't want to work for anyone else. I came from a science background, so I approached things fairly analytically.