Quotes from Udo Kier

I like digital films.

Frankenstein' was more programmed, but 'Dracula' we did as it came along because at the beginning we weren't sure how it was going to end - it wasn't written in the script.

If David Lynch wants me to audition I will do it. But a young filmmaker, no. I won't.

I like to work with directors where you feel they make the movies not for the audience, but make them for themselves. They don't care if it's a success financially. That's what I like.

I tried all my life to be a normal person. Stars are in the sky. I like cooking and gardening.

I have a ranch and when I sit there and see a little lizard and birds, I really love what I see and I'm love with nature.

If I hadn't been an actor, I'd be a gardener.

I bought a former library, not because I have a lot of books, but also I like architecture, and it was built in 1965, and I like gardening.

I was brought up in Germany, born in 1944, and there was nothing to eat.

I was fascinated by the story of FW Murnau, one of the most famous directors in Germany, where I come from.

I don't wear gloves when I work in the garden.

The good thing about films is, you never know how good they will be. If there was a formula, there would only be good films!

Evil has no limits. If you are a good person, everybody expects you to be good. If you are very good then you become Albert Schweitzer or Mother Theresa. Then you're very good because you are helping people. But evil has no limits.

In 'House of Boys,' I wanted to be in drag. It was amazing to be in the middle of all these drag queens. They did my makeup. I hardly recognized myself! That was very funny.

The best compliment for a director is that an audience hates their films.

I want to have fun. Big Hollywood films can be fun, but you know it's an industry, and if you don't function, they send you home.

Nobody of us has ever seen ourselves! We see a reflection in the mirror.

If you make horror movies, you always have to think what's photogenic and what's not.

I had such a horrible childhood. My father was already married with three children when I was born and my mother didn't know. So we grew up poor. We had no hot water until I was 17. I went to work in a factory, and worked and saved for months until I had the money to come to England.

Audition is the worst thing. It's like cleaning furniture in a department store.

I'm a totally desert person.

I remember when I worked with Fassbinder in Germany, actors wrote letters to him. But you see, a director wants to discover you himself. He doesn't want the actor to say, 'oh, I'd love to work with you' - the actor says that to other people, too.

You know, I don't want to waste my time by being in a movie where nobody remembers my part. That's not interesting at all!

I don't like to work with directors who have taken an adoption from another script writer, because it's too much: one of them writes it and then has to explain it to the other, or maybe the director sees it in a way the writer doesn't want it.