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 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.

The U.S. cannot force Sunnis, Shias, and Kurds to make peace or to act for the common good. They have been in conflict for 1,400 years.

Peace, love, and truth trump hate every time.

Everyone says we have our first African American president. Has there ever been a Jewish president? An Italian president? They don't say a damn thing about that. You think we're still fighting the Civil War or something. If you want to mention it in passing, OK. But don't dwell on it.

The Civil War always moves me.