Germans don't speak in a German accent, they just speak German.
I suppose the place where I live is fairly remote, it would seem remote to some people.
I'm not sure you learn anything on film sets.
I'm very often still very much alive for that other being and that other world long after the film is finished.
There's nothing worse than finding yourself in a situation, a very demanding piece of work, and knowing that you're not a true ally to the person who's in charge of all that.
At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve.
I feel less often compelled to do the work than I was in the past.
My main memories of my father are of his illness.
I never retreat from films, as it were, I simply indulge in other interests, that's all.
I broke things to get attention.
I've been very lucky.
If you remain unsettled by a piece of writing, it means you are not watching the story from the outside; you've already taken a step towards it.
I suppose it's a very highly developed form of denial, but some part of me completely denies that I'm a performer.
I'm a little bit perverse, and I just hate doing the thing that's the most obvious.
For about a year, I just didn't know what to do. I did laboring jobs, working in the docks, construction sites.
God knows, I haven't always been successful.
As a member of the audience I don't like it that I can't see what's going on in the eyes and in the face and in the most subtle responses of a performer when I'm more than a few rows back. I find it very frustrating.
As actors, we're all encouraged to feel that each job is the last job. They plant some little electrode in your head at an early stage and you think, 'Be grateful, be grateful, be grateful.'
I like to cook things very slowly.
For as long as I can remember, the thing that gave me a sense of wonderment and renewal... has always been the work of other actors.
When I did make the decision to focus on acting, I think my mother was just relieved for me that I had finally started to focus.
Periodically over the years I've always taken periods of time away from acting.