Words matter. These are the best Sebastian Koch Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Actually it’s a gift as an actor to cover such different parts of history. It’s like time travelling, being inside a history book, in the actual locations.
I kept having the producers of ‘Fog in August’ take out some of the Nazi terms and phrases. I don’t want audiences to look at this doctor and say, ‘He is a Nazi monster’ and think that it has nothing to do with our lives today.
I have always had a longing to talk about this Nazi period because my parents’ generation wouldn’t talk about it after the war at all. From an actor’s point of view, it’s amazing to play in one year the Nazi Albert Speer and Claus von Stauffenberg.
I was always an admirer of French movies when I was young.
I’m a teamworker.
I always want to do things that really have to be done, something that’s a challenge – and I’m trying not to repeat myself.
I like success, but I don’t believe in it at the expense of other stuff. It’s more important to stay in my skin.
I definitely won’t play the bad German, the Nazi German, here in Hollywood or wherever.
Shakespeare is global – of course he can be shared.
I have no ‘dream role.’ It just comes to me; it’s very intuitive, and I say, ‘OK, I have to do this now.’ It’s not logical; just, ‘I have to jump into this very strange character,’ or something like that. I can’t even explain it.
We have an inner window through which we can see the world, and though it gets cloudy in life, it’s our job to wipe it clean and see things as they really are.
For me, it depends only on the script, the part I’m doing, and the people around me. It could be in Greenland or the Sahara. I don’t care.
