I like to work with directors where you feel they make the movies not for the audience, but make them for themselves. They don't care if it's a success financially. That's what I like.

I have few friends. I can count them on one hand. I go by myself to the cleaners and the supermarket and I live alone with my dogs.

In Hollywood, they make movies like they make washing machines. It's a business. In Europe, the films are considered art. No producer would ever tell a director where to cut a film or how to re-write the script. I love Hollywood, but all of the time I have to go back to Europe.

I was fascinated by the story of FW Murnau, one of the most famous directors in Germany, where I come from.

I like to have the newest thing. I like the Internet, they know more about me than I do, which is amazing.

I bought a former library, not because I have a lot of books, but also I like architecture, and it was built in 1965, and I like gardening.

Good movies are difficult to make, and good trash is even harder to make.

If you make horror movies, you always have to think what's photogenic and what's not.

I'm an aesthetic person who loves beauty.

If you make horror movies, you always have to think what's photogenic and what's not.

I'll tell you what a friendship is to me. Friendship to me is, if my friends need my little finger to live, I'm going to have it cut off. I'm going to the hospital, they cut off my finger, and maybe I have a gold finger instead, and I become famous. But I still give it to my friend.