You have the energy when you're a kid to really fight for rights - that's why kids make great soldiers, right?

Everybody needs to go to Mongolia just to see what it is to be a human being again.

There are many times where even I, at certain points in the evening, after a few drinks, can't pronounce my own surname.

Rather than go to the gym, I would prefer to do martial arts because the time goes by quicker

When I think about myself at 15, I can't relate to myself at all. I thought I knew everything.

Bringing all 45 members of my crazy family together, and watching them argue is super awesome. It's good to do it just once a year.

At the end of it all, it's my little movie library, and you see aspects of me through that.

I started super young, but when I think about myself at that age - what I thought I knew, and how priggish I was, how certain of things - now I realize that nothing is certain.

I've been really into boyfriend blazers, I like mixing tweeds with floral fabrics. The masculine and feminine look.

I just want to make one really good movie a year. And when I die, to know I was honest as an artist.

Scratch a Russian, and you'll find a peasant.

If a man could make the earth heaven to get you, could also make it hell for you if he couldn't get you.

I wasn't planning to lead, I was standing in the back and then everyone turned around.

The old blood is indeed still strong in the Two Rivers.

You can enjoy encouragement coming from outside but you cannot need for it to come from outside.

I love taking on roles that I haven't yet done in my career.

It is not in the interest of the German people or in the interest of world peace that Germany should become a pawn or a partner in a military struggle for power between the East and the West.

Nothing comes easy, but as long as you're breathing, you're always one breath away from making your dreams a reality. Make every breath count.

The explosion of the Web and digital media from 1995 to 2000 shook companies more profoundly in a shorter time than anything since the end of World War II.

I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.

I have my own judge in me....and he's always judging me.