We Germans should know that we're good at constructing cars, and we have a lot of good qualities. But we're not the funniest.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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 on doing comedies. We should know by now that we make good cars but we're not the funniest people.
Germans make nice cars.
I'm into all things German. Everything that I own is German. As far as cars go, anyway.
One of the key problems is that the Germans know what they do because everywhere they go there's a 'made in Germany' label on it - they can feel proud of Volkswagens and Audis and Mercedes.
The thing that I like about Germany is that Germans are so much like us. It's not like going to some other countries, where the differences are overwhelming and you walk around in a fog. Germans are so similar to Americans.
Being German, I think we don't really express a lot of things.
As a five-year-old in Berlin in 1965, I didn't know that funny women existed. It wasn't until I got back to England that I realised women could be funny.
Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important.
We do not build speedways, but roads which correspond to the character of the German landscape.
I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a direction which they do not want to go.