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I very much dislike being interviewed by the kind of journalist who tries to dig into your private life.

I was a very bad journalist. Awful. I would just invent everything. If I did an interview, I had a preconception of what that person should say and I would put my words in his mouth.

I was a student in Germany when Hitler came to power.

In my life, I wanted to meet certain people. I never met Charlie Chaplin, but I met Werner Herzog.

I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace.

At the time I belonged to the socialist party, and Hitler came to power.

Spending a weekend with Hitler would have been boring in the extreme, although you would have had a greater certainty in coming back alive.

I worked as a lawyer; as a member of the teaching staff of a technical college; and then I worked principally as legal adviser to Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers Party.

I did my first interview in 1995 and was asked about my private life. I said, 'Why would I tell you? I don't see the logic in anyone knowing that about me. For whose sake? Nobody wins.'

I've interviewed the president in the White House. I'd interviewed major newsmakers and Hollywood actors.