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

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.

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.

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

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.