"It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world."

“I've made movies that cost less than one car chase.”

“People should be respected for the strength of their convictions, and I also believe in freedom of expression.”

“I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous.”

“Superior technical achievements - used correctly both strategically and tactically - can beat any quantity numerically many times stronger yet technically inferior.”

Source : Adolf Galland (1954). “The first and the last: the rise and fall of the German fighter forces, 1938-1945”

“We can look at history and see that [political turmoil is] fertile ground for art.”

Source : "There’s Poetry About Beyoncé Now - And It’s Amazing". Interview with Becca Andrews, www.motherjones.com. February 15, 2017.

“I think that my vampires in general were influenced by my being allowed to watch the Hammer vampire films. Vampire Circus, also shown as Circus of Fear, was one of those movies”

“Well I live in Vienna with my wife and son, and I teach in Hamburg, there will be no changes in that respect.”

“Do you take pride in your hurt?' Samuel asked. 'Does it make you seem large and tragic? . . . Maybe you're playing a part on a great stage with only yourself as audience . . . there's all that fallow land, and here beside me is all that fallow man. It seems a waste. And I have a bad feeling about waste because I could never afford it. Is it a good feeling to let your life lie fallow?”