Singing still brings me tremendous joy, the reception you get and you never know what people are going to share with you after the event.
In German. I'm more sensitized to the details, to the emotions. In English, I wouldn't detect as much nuance.
I give the spectator the possibility of participating. The audience completes the film by thinking about it; those who watch must not be just consumers ingesting spoon-fed images.
Writers and filmakers, that is, people who describe the world, suffer from an occupational disease. They never experience moments in life quite spontaneously. You always look at yourself from the outside. Even as a child I always observed myself and the world. I believe that everyone who chooses this path in any way, who chooses to be a describer of life, suffers from this condition. It's like a mental obsession. It can be a great pity too. It robs you of a certain joy in spontaneity.
Film is simply the most complex way you can express yourself
That is one of the characteristics of fascism, the idea that the state can provide all of the answers for everyone.
I'm not really a happy person. It's a question of temperament. I have a tendency toward melancholy. You can feel quite happily melancholic.
I sometimes feel like I need to pinch myself. I feel extremely fortunate.
Love of learning is a pleasant and universal bond since it deals with what one is and not what one has.
No Vermont town ever let anybody in it starve.
I still find the best way to understand a hospitalized patient is not by staring at the computer screen but by going to see the patient; it's only at the bedside that I can figure out what is important.