I'm doing a much smaller movie. It's set in Germany and it's a totally different subject matter. I'm trying to break it up.

Nobody makes movies bad on purpose.

I'm a filmmaker, not a scientist.

I try to put in every one of my movies some sort of message. I don't want to overdo it, because I don't want people to get annoyed by it, but it's good to have a message.

Do not fear. Some things will never change.

I'm only a stupid filmmaker.

When you find something where you can give people a message and still make it an exciting movie, you get very, very excited about something. You probably even work harder than you normally do.

I think every good, entertaining movie should have a message. I really believe that, because if you do it without it, the film feels a little bit soulless.

It's like everybody is obsessed with Hollywood movies worldwide. And even though everybody hates the Americans, they're still watching American movies.

A lot of stuff in Wikipedia is not true, and that goes for a lot of people. I sometimes think, "How can that happen?" But Wikipedia is maintained by people, and everybody can add stuff to it.

Everybody knows that the industrialized nations are the worst offenders.

When you want something badly enough, it does not matter whether it is going to be easy. The passion will push you forward.

The capacity for erroneous belief is very great, especially where it coincides with convenience.

I'm sick of the media making female sports athletes into supermodels, when they're clearly sixes at best.

Washington is the only city in the world where you can go to a black-tie dinner and there at the foot of the table is a television set up to catch a press conference.

Ebooks had to happen.

Patience alleviates, as impatience augments, pain; thus persons of strong will suffer less than those who give way to irritation.

I'm not particularly fond of kissing strange men-contrary to popular belief.

Everything is banal in experience, fleeting in duration, sordid in content; in all respects the same today as generations now dead and buried have found it to be.

The important thing to understand about American history, wrote Mr. Ibis, in his leather-bound journal, is that it is fictional, a charcoal-sketched simplicity for the children, or the easily bored.

I started with self gone missing.