I think it's very hard for a woman to be treated as a person and not just as a woman who tries to become a politician.

I love Atlanta. It's a great city with great crews there.

I was born in Switzerland. Everyone thinks I'm Swiss, but I'm actually German. I'm from Germany.

It doesn't matter if you work with an Oscar winner or if you work with an unknown actor. There is always a collaboration between the director and the actors, and you always have to listen as the actors have to listen to you as a director.

You always face a bunch of hands trying to stop you from working.

All my favorite movies are American movies since I was a kid.

Each shooting day is a big challenge, but it's also fun.

I think every filmmaker in Europe would be lying if they didn't say one day they just wanted to make a movie here in Hollywood or at least try it. It's very different from European filmmaking, because here it's like a real industry. It's very much about money and making money, which I think is fine, because it's very expensive to make movies.