But actually I make films that I think are extremely sophisticated and cinematic.

When I was young I used to sit in the cinema thinking wouldn't it be great if you could have a film in which the characters were like real people instead of being like actors.

I try and create for the audience something that relates to real-life experience.

Given the choice of Hollywood or poking steel pins in my eyes, I'd prefer steel pins.

I hope I make films where you walk away . . . with work to do, arguments to have, things to worry about, things to care about. In that sense, I would regard what I do as political.

My work is about life as you and I experience it. You're either lucky or you're not lucky; either your relationship works or it doesn't.

But films should be voyeuristic. What else is a film if you’re not snooping into somebody else’s lives?

There's a constant drip and trickle of life that goes into one's awareness really and consciousness of things.

I discover what my film is by embarking on the journey of making it.

The way an actor is trained doesn't ultimately have much bearing on my work. I'm interested in the actor as artist.

It's an unhealthy habit to say that life is what you make of it, and if you want to be happy, then you can be happy. That's just rubbish, basically.

Isn't it interesting that all of the biblical prophets and psalmists were poets?

I am for the woods against the world, But are the woods for me?

Making a fool out of yourself and putting it on the Internet is one of the best bonding experiences you could have.

I think there is a very quiet power in things that are not on screen

I would describe myself as quite sane and lucid, which is why I'm still alive.

Jesus cursed a living tree and it died; Mohammed blessed a dead tree and it lived.

For war there is always enough. It's peace that's expensive.

I was born February 20, 1937 in Munchen as the first child of Sebastian and Helene Huber.

Understand that a problem is only a problem if you choose to view it as a problem (vs. an opportunity).

I am the expert on battery life.