(I must) drive around a bit in this country before I have the right to make a film here again. |
At the moment it is much more unknown to me here than in the American west, which I know quite well now -- much better than Saxony, Mecklenburg or even Bavaria. |
Both Sam and I were scared to try and repeat that success. Through the years, we've kept in touch. We knew one day that we would do something together but it had to arrive naturally. |
Butte was once a grand city. To me, that city is like one big stage for Edward Hopper. You could put your camera anywhere, and you felt you were looking at his paintings. |
easy prey. |
I grew up in postwar Germany. It was the opposite of the American West. The West became in my mind the ideal place on this planet. When I got there, I felt more at home than anywhere. |
I remember saying, `This will change the course of history,' when the towers fell, ... Little did I know, though, how right I had been. |
It's as if Hopper had painted his entire work here. |
It's what people all over the world are concerned with -- the disintegration of the family. |
The more opinions you have, the less you see. |
The West was the one place where I knew I needed to go. It's the one landscape where I could just, blindfolded, shoot. |
utterly self-absorbed and isolated itself more and more from the rest of the world. That was very painful for somebody like me who loves America and didn't want to see it pervert all its virtues. |