Otto Preminger

I can't talk about every single film I made. It's not my way to go back into the past and to look at my old pictures and to discuss them.

When I was a young actor in Vienna, already my hair was falling out at a rapid rate. I went to a doctor, who said hair was like grass: if you mow it, then it grows back stronger. So I went to Brittany, where nobody knew me, and I shaved my head. When it grew back - only the fringes!

I do not welcome advice from actors; they are here to act.

I stopped acting when I was 19. The only time I acted again was during the war, when there were no other Nazis available.

I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot of old memories.

I never seek controversy or foresee it for my pictures. I take a personal stand, and perhaps because my films are on contemporary subjects, people do not share my point of view.