Til Schweiger

Action alone doesn't work in Germany - you need an emotional element to the story.

I hate sitting around and waiting; that's why I always have an editing suite on set.

The Russian male audience, they loved 'Knockin' on Heaven's Door,' and they like my comedies, but the Russian male audience is action, action, action.

After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the surface.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

I love '90s grunge and punk.