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During the past few years I have led a sometimes hard battle for German foreign policy.

I started rereading 'The Dutchman' - I kind of just pulled it off the shelf.

If you look at my life, generally, I've been put in situations which were difficult and which I conquered.

I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy when Polish frontiers were crossed by invading armies and the sovereign state had to succumb to brutal force.

I've had the good fortune of studying the 17th-century art of Amsterdam in preparation for a film.

I took the part in 'Mr. Holland's Opus' because no one had ever asked me to play 'a life' before. I get to age through 30 years. The idea really challenged me.

Growing up in England, I was constantly surrounded by the Arthurian legend.

'Empire' was a very traumatic experience for me. It was very schizophrenic, and it wasn't what I expected it to be.

The Mariel boatlift was probably one of the most strengthening events of the exile community; maybe Nietzschean, in the sense that if it doesn't kill you, it makes you stronger.