“You always face a bunch of hands trying to stop you from working.”

If you’re undercover for two or three years, I think you lose your private life.

It doesn’t matter if you work with an Oscar winner or if you work with an unknown actor. There is always a collaboration between the director and the actors, and you always have to listen as the actors have to listen to you as a director.

I think it’s very hard for a woman to be treated as a person and not just as a woman who tries to become a politician.

I love Atlanta. It’s a great city with great crews there.

Each shooting day is a big challenge, but it’s also fun.

I was born in Switzerland. Everyone thinks I’m Swiss, but I’m actually German. I’m from Germany.

All my favorite movies are American movies since I was a kid.

I always give one actor an emotion to make it very easy so he or she can root to it.

In America, people really love movies here and it’s part of the culture. Even in Germany, still sometimes, the theater is always bigger than movies. It’s more art. Movies are more popcorn. Here, movies are really an art form.

But … the days that the Jewish people remain passive in the face of genocidal enemies — those days are over.

The rules of engagement have become so rigid that governments often straightjacket themselves in the face of unambiguous aggression.

Now, we are seeing many of these same companies face the truth about their financial standing. Congress is faced with the challenge of reforming our accounting industry and holding corporate executives responsible for their actions.

You are fully capable of deciding your own destiny. The question you face is: which path will you choose? This is something only you can decide.

Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.

Those [Watergate] tapes are going to take me to my grave with a huge smile on my face.

Climate change…is, simply, the greatest collective challenge we face as a human family.

No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.