Citations

[on playing children's writer Erich Kästner] Kästner's connection to children wasn't that simple after all apparently, children didn't play a large role in his personal life. But he understood children because he took them seriously and because, to him, they were the smarter and better grown-ups.

[on playing children's writer Erich Kästner] The problem was: I have never smoked in my life, I had never liked the taste. In the beginning we tried using herbal cigarettes, but that didn't really work out. Later my cigarettes contained a light tobacco. And then, at some point, what happened was that I also lit up a cigarette when I wasn't being filmed. I was extremely shocked when I noticed this and I stopped it again real quickly.