32 Quotes by Maximilian Schell

Music in this film is a very important part.

My mother was an actress and a director, as well. And my father was a playwright and poet.

When I was a young actor, in my first apartment, the first thing I bought was a Steinway piano. There was no bed at first. I slept on the floor.

When you have the cast, the sets, the lights, an opera takes on its own life. I'm not one of those directors who marches in with a set of plans.

Except here it's more power, more energy, younger and also in Europe it's still not only entertainment. Theater or films are looked at as a moral institution. That's why maybe they're so poetic. Here it's clear entertainment.

I just think the word interview, although it is the view between two people exchanged, became a sort of cliche. You ask questions and the other one answers.

Maybe, but if you look at Sunset Boulevard, it's not so far away. Even Citizen Kane is not so far away. So I think that I know it's not so far away.

Im always happy when Im left alone, but if somebody comes and is nice, then we talk.

I think all the poets and artists have always written for peace and love, and it hasn’t changed much in the last two or three thousand years. But we hope.