Latest Christoph Waltz Quotes from Interviews

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• 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.

  Christoph Waltz

  People, Together, Elements

  Source: collider.com

• I go with the most interesting thing that comes my way,I don't expect it to come from India to tell you the truth, but if it did, fine by me.

  Christoph Waltz

  Interesting, India, Way

  Source: collider.com

• What it really is and what I now have experienced is that, people who take enormous pride in what they're doing - not in their person - that their work ethos is as high as nowhere else.That they love their jobs, they love to do their jobs properly as best they can. And coupled with the financial umph, you know, you get decent results.

  Christoph Waltz

  Jobs, Pride, Ethos

  Source: collider.com

• One does not contradict the other.Straight-faced is the basis of all decent comedy.

  Christoph Waltz

  Doe, Comedy, Decent

  Source: collider.com

• 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

  Art, Thinking, America

  Source: collider.com

• There are plenty of people over there who understand the difference. And there are plenty of people over here who understand the difference. It's still one world and it has been for a long time.

  Christoph Waltz

  Differences, Long, People

  Source: collider.com

• I'm not into weapons. I'm not into cars. I'm not into explosions. I'm scared of all of that.

  Christoph Waltz

  Car, Weapons, Scared

  Source: collider.com

• I had to learn how to drive a cement truck because there is a whole car chase with cement trucks, so I had to learn how to drive a cement truck. I don't like these things, but I'm not an idiot. I can do it.

  Christoph Waltz

  Car, Idiot, Truck

  Source: collider.com

• 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

  Thinking, Play, Brain

  Source: collider.com

• 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

  Thinking, Voice, Giving

  Source: collider.com

• For me, personally, there is one really interesting thing. You're all a bit too young for that, but when you get to a certain level of experience, accumulation of experience you start slowly to once in a while get a whiff of the feeling, I'd love to be twenty years younger but with what I know and have experienced at this point.

  Christoph Waltz

  Years, Interesting, Feelings

  Source: collider.com

• 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?

  Christoph Waltz

  Stars, Careers, Perspective

  Source: collider.com

• If I jumped into the cliché, 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

  Book, Ignorance, Different

  Source: collider.com

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

  Christoph Waltz

  Home, Guy, Needs

  Source: collider.com

• 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.

  Christoph Waltz

  Book, Intellectual, Culture

  Source: collider.com

• 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.

  Christoph Waltz

  Ignorance, Interesting, Risk

  Source: collider.com

• I don't like to read novelizations of movies.

  Christoph Waltz

  Source: collider.com

• Mine is studying script and being very academic and trying to be important.

  Christoph Waltz

  Important, Trying, Scripts

  Source: collider.com

• 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.

  Christoph Waltz

  Moving, Safety Zone, Interesting

  Source: collider.com

• I worked next to an elephant. And considering that she could step on your toes, it's a good idea to keep a certain distance. It's also a good idea to befriend the trainer.

  Christoph Waltz

  Distance, Elephants, Ideas

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

• 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

  World, Advantage, Importance

  "Rogen, Diaz, Chou, Waltz, Gondry and Moritz Talk About Making 'the Green Hornet'". Interview with the filmmakers, www.hollywoodnews.com. January 13, 2011.

• 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

  Philosophy, Real, Needs

  Source: screenrant.com

• A silly comedy needs a straight guy, and that guy needs to be as straight as possible. The moment you start playing straight you're not straight anymore, you're bent straight, so it really requires the usual serious, straight-forward analysis and research, looking into it and finding the dramatic function, all of what you do until you feel you've collected enough points to safely and securely play the part.

  Christoph Waltz

  Silly, Play, Guy

  Source: screenrant.com

• 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.

  Christoph Waltz

  Mean, Two, Different

  Source: screenrant.com

• 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

  Two, Vices, Shooting

  Source: screenrant.com