“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.”

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 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.

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.

You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.

I get no respect. The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.

The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.

There is no virtue in compulsory government charity, and there is no virtue in advocating it. A politician who portrays himself as ‘caring’ and ‘sensitive’ because he wants to expand the government’s charitable programs is merely saying that he’s willing to try to do good with other people’s money.

Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don’t draft people; it’s not jury duty.

I rarely meet a politician that I don’t like personally. They are generally well endowed with charm. Therein lies the danger.

The public want honesty from their politicians. Not showy gimmicks.

Politicians were like talking dogs in a circus.