Fiction is my home, I came from fiction, I like to tell stories.

When an audience is laughing, that's opening their souls somehow, and when you have an audience with an open soul, it's much better to hit them with a knife.

Germans try to categorize films: in a comedy, you just laugh and in a drama, you're not allowed to laugh. I don't believe in that, sometimes we laugh and cry in the same hour.

Whenever I'm making a feature film, I wish I were filming a documentary, because making feature films is so stressful. It happens every time.

I like it when actors depart from the script to find their characters.

Maybe every two films you need to do documentary to tell what you really want to tell and not be limited by the medium. With documentary you don't create the reality you have to hunt the reality.

I don't like violence in movies, I'm not a kind of Tarantino fan. But sometimes it's necessary.

As a director, you can transform your vision more with the music.

I always listen to music when I write, I need a rhythm to write.

Once I start shooting I forget the scriptwriter in me. I like things flowing. If you have talented actors who bring their own ideas, it can be much better than what you have worked out.

A library card is the start of a lifelong adventure.

Greatness emanates through endurance and triumph over the difficulties in life.

Villon our sad bad glad mad brother's name.

This is a business. Be smart. Choose wisely.

When I get onstage in a play, I feel very safe, very protected, very fulfilled.

I didn't get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!

Geometry is the art of correct reasoning from incorrectly drawn figures.

The bad things you can see with one eye closed. But keep both eyes wide open for the little things. Little things mark the great dividing line between success and failure.

All human beings, without exception, are continually creating themselves with the life-energy that is flowing within them

I am always amazed how much a certain facility with a special and apparently narrow technique can accomplish.