You can change so many things in your life, but you cannot change where you come from. It's something that you have to deal with: the role everybody …

- Maren Ade

I had the feeling I had to stay focused on what's lying under. A big part of the story in Toni Erdmann happens on the sub-level. On the surface, a lo…

- Maren Ade

A family is something very static and hard to escape, so everybody has a certain role over the years, no matter if you like it or not.

- Maren Ade

I always do casting for every role, even if it's just one sentence. I like to work with theater actors because they're used to a process. I think fil…

- Maren Ade

With every enemy, when you get closer you understand much more, or the picture dissolves.

- Maren Ade

Politically, the world economy really depends on consultants. Because it's also, in a way, an outsourcing of responsibility. They can say, "Yeah, the…

- Maren Ade

We with Komplizen Film believe very much in the writer-director and in the freedom of a filmmaker. I think it's always good to be involved where you …

- Maren Ade

Father-daughter has a lot of layers, I find.

- Maren Ade

For me, it was always clear that Toni Erdmann is more a film about what globalization, capitalism, does with private relationships much more than mak…

- Maren Ade