Bruno Ganz

“I am not considered to be extroverted - except on the stage.”

“I really do not like violence.”

“I get bored with unintelligent scripts. When I read the first page and I can tell what is going to happen, I know I don't want to make the film. It's two months work and I would get deeply bored. I would even prefer to do something that didn't work at the box-office, so long as it kept my interest alive.”

“Every actor wants to win an Oscar.”

“I'm not someone who could do 'Superweib,' even if you tell me that this director is another Lubitsch. I saw the preview, and I have to say that you'd need a squad of police officers to force me to see the whole thing.”

“People really seemed to think of me as a guardian angel. People would bring their children before me for a blessing or something.”

“I do not want to repeat myself with my roles.”

“I was so stupid when I was young. I thought that everyone should share my feelings and my sadness about the state of the world, the stuff you have when you are 16 and are asking if God exists.”

“When I was still young and living in Switzerland, I had auditioned in Munich for a German film and was rejected. So I gave up and concentrated on my stage work. But I always wanted to make films.”

“I don't know what evil itself is.”

“I like to walk. I like to read. I like to watch people.”

“People in planes said: 'Ah, no need to be afraid, because with you here, nothing can happen. Now we are safe.' Or a mother said to her child: 'Look, there's your guardian angel.' They weren't joking. That was an amazing feeling. I loved that. Because that means much more than people saying, 'You are a very good actor,' or 'I love your work.'”

“As a boy I was morbidly shy.”

“I was a leftist for a long time.”

“In some way I became an angel, and who except me has experienced that in his lifetime?”

“It would be nice to do one real Hollywood movie.”

“I'm very curious.”

“An Australian actor wouldn't have the experience to feel how it is to be in Australia as a European.”

“Kinski was fascinating. To me he was always very nice and he never attacked me. He liked to show his power by sometimes quarrelling with people on production. I adored him as an actor, but not always as a person.”

“I tend to identify with my roles to such an extent that I appear to be totally convinced about certain statements that, in real life, I would never believe in.”