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We haven't done action movies in Germany. We had some attempts in the '90s, but they failed.

I think what makes a good action film is a story that gets you involved. Just action, by itself, is not going to work.

I felt no need to write a German-bashing play.

Sooner or later, directors in Germany will start casting without regard to where a person is from. It shouldn't matter anymore.

Germany can make a major difference in the lives of so many Holocaust survivors who are struggling in their later years.

I have long been convinced that my artistic ideal stands or falls with Germany. Only the Germany that we love and desire can help us achieve that ideal.

Being German, I think we don't really express a lot of things.

We Germans have a special responsibility to be alert, sensitive, and aware of what we did during the Nazi era and about lasting damage caused in other countries. I've got tremendous sympathy for that.

But Germany will always suffer, I fear, from the intensely dramatic character of the crimes of the Third Reich.

You cannot stoke the fires of prejudice against German people and then not find that somewhere, sometime down the road it doesn't discharge.