I was born in Switzerland. Everyone thinks I'm Swiss, but I'm actually German. I'm from Germany.

I love Atlanta. It's a great city with great crews there.

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

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 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.

You always face a bunch of hands trying to stop you from working.

Each shooting day is a big challenge, but it's also fun.

Humans are naturally scared and confused beings. They not only fear the unknown, as they live fearing themselves... ☥

Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and take one thing off.

Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things.

The Internet contains everything in the whole wide world ever. I don’t know about you, but I find everything in the whole wide world ever to be a bit distracting.

Anger doesn't demand action. When you act in anger, you lose self-control.

I have no skills. I mean, I can make jokes, I'm pretty good at talking to people on the Judge John Hodgman podcast. I can figure out what makes a pretty good story, and I can make eggs really well.

God may allow us at times to hit rock bottom, to show us He's the rock-at the bottom.

Love is the binding force on every level of existence.

What is to be done about these literary people, who will never understand that painting is a craft and that the material side comes first? The ideas come afterwards, when the picture is finished.

Take something ordinary and elevate it to something extraordinary.