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It's the economics, that's wh...

It's the economics, that's why opera is not dying but gets more and more difficult to put on.

Christoph Waltz 51 quotes

I guess there are no real str...

I guess there are no real strict rules [in comedy], but I just learn to apply my philosophy about comedy which is, it's a serious business and the result needs to be funny, not the process.

Christoph Waltz 51 quotes

If I jumped into the clich?, ...

If I jumped into the clich?, everybody will have seen it before. If I stick to my ignorance a little bit, maybe, maybe it will turn out different. Or maybe a slightly new aspect to a comic book villain.

Christoph Waltz 51 quotes

What I liked so much while sh...

What I liked so much while shooting [a movie], I might not like anymore when I see it or vice versa. The two are connected but not on a causal level.

Christoph Waltz 51 quotes

I'd sort of acquired somewhat...

I'd sort of acquired somewhat more mature perspective on what my career is and I don't...not anymore...consider fame and fortune my career. I'm not a star. I'm an actor. So in a way, what I want to do as an actor, I would consider good for my career. Does that make sense?

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Facts can be so misleading, w...

Facts can be so misleading, where rumors, true or false, are often revealing.

Christoph Waltz 51 quotes

You need the villain. If you ...

You need the villain. If you don't have a villain, the good guy can stay home.

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I'm not really all that famil...

I'm not really all that familiar with comic book culture. Not because I'm such a high brow intellectual and bloody European. But it's just something that I was never into. Not because of any superiority. I don't know why.

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I have nothing to do with com...

I have nothing to do with comics. I know nothing about comics. I am aware of the importance of comics, but they're not within my world. Not because I feel that I'm above it, but just that micro-surgery is not in my world either. Is that a deficit or is that an advantage?

Christoph Waltz 51 quotes

There is quite an important d...

There is quite an important director in Germany who I think in the early fifties over here, and then went back, and he said something that's absolutely true. And it's more important to repeat that today than it ever was. Not for you, but for us over there it is important. He said, 'In America they make movies like art, and sell it like commodities. We make make movies like commodities and sell them like art.'

Christoph Waltz 51 quotes

To be fair, on a good project...

To be fair, on a good project, no matter whether it's improvised or scripted or meticulously prepared, or all up for grabs, it's always, always beyond the safety zone. Every project becomes interesting and exciting once you move beyond that routine. You always aspire to that. It's not that this improvisational mode is the only mode that facilitates that.

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That's exactly what I'm drivi...

That's exactly what I'm driving at. 'Basterds' was interesting because it was, in a way, unfamiliar. I thought well, OK. Let's leave the comfort zone and just risk it. Why not? Because, exactly as you said, in a way, by taking that risk, I make up a little bit for my ignorance in the subject, or rather, the genre.

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The villain is usually the mo...

The villain is usually the most interesting part. But it has to be a smart thing. Just dumb clich? villains with a Russian accent and big muscles and a mean face, I don’t know. My Russian accent isn’t that great, and the muscles aren’t that big and the mean face is not enough. You know what I mean? It gets very boring. Tedious stuff.

Christoph Waltz 51 quotes

I have my brain switched on a...

I have my brain switched on and I might be thinking something else but we've come to an arrangement. That sort of play is maybe easier with someone who also thinks that way. But that is not necessarily a national thing, but maybe a little bit of a cultural thing.

Christoph Waltz 51 quotes

Comedy is the result of what'...

Comedy is the result of what's happening, not what people are doing. Because if people are doing comedy. It's embarrassing. The individual elements have to be straight-faced, serious, realistic with a firm basis. What makes it comedy is a somewhat shifted way to put it together.

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Effortless [performance] and ...

Effortless [performance] and improvisation are two different things. Just because it's improvised doesn't mean it's effortless and just because it's effortless doesn't necessarily mean it's improvised.

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I don't say things straight i...

I don't say things straight into the other person's face. I kind of like to make a joke or a remark and make it digestible or just give a little comment that voices my concern, but is not meant to be a critique, but just a comment so that he understands that I am thinking.

Christoph Waltz 51 quotes

I only do what I like to do....

I only do what I like to do.

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I think in Europe, movies are ...

I think in Europe, movies are made like a commodity and then sold as art.

Christoph Waltz 51 quotes

You know, I don't support esot...

You know, I don't support esoteric approaches to acting.

Christoph Waltz 51 quotes

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