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

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.

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.

I had the privilege of being able to choose, or at least have the opportunity to work at, being anything but an actor.

I told myself that I would not go back to the camps as an actor ever again, that I was very frightened of wearing a yellow star. It was fear, it was cowardice, I was.

Fifteen years before I became a screen actor, I was in the theatre. A lot of my work was comedy, which I loved doing. It’s harder.

I don’t want to be like the actor who rehearses everything in the bathroom, then comes to the set and carries on completely uninterrupted while the other actors tiptoe away.

Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.

I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show.

The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner.

In the 60s, if you wanted to be an actor, you couldn’t do just one thing.