Happiness is the enemy. It weakens you, puts doubts in your mind. Suddenly, you have something to lose..

My parents always went to rallies and demonstrated against certain things; my generation, we often have a political conscience, but we're not that in….

I'm always nervous doing auditions - to be honest, I hate it. I always envy the actors who are so cool and cold-blooded when they go in for an auditi….

I was lucky to start working when German cinema was having an interesting moment. Now the quality is going downhill again because they're insisting o….

I would love to spend a year living in New York; I've wanted to do that since I was 18. I'll be really disappointed if I'm 50 and haven't done someth….

I have one car that works; it's fast and safe: an Audi 5. And I have two old cars that never work: an old Peugeot convertible, and an Alfa Romeo Giul….

The key is to let computers do what they are good at, which is trawling these massive data sets for something that is mathematically odd. And that ma….

If you play a real character who's famous and still alive, it makes things easier if you have the luck to have a good relationship with them..