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

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.

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.

I’m a lifelong movie addict, and one of my favorite projects is making replica props and costumes.

David O. Russell is probably my favorite filmmaker. He’s not only a great director, but he’s also a great writer.

Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.

English was my favorite subject.

I never really listen to what people say. My thing is that my favorite artists are artists that are theatrical.

My favorite Catholic holiday is Easter. For those of you that don’t know, Easter is the day we celebrate Jesus rising from the grave and coming back to Earth as a rabbit that hides colored eggs.

My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, ‘I think your girlfriend’s gorgeous, but it’s all right, I’m gay.’ They get very nervous after a few minutes!

Most of the time, my favorite drama has comedy in it as well. I think most good dramas have comedy in there. And all of the dramatic actors I look up to are also very funny.