First love is first love, first marriage is first marriage, disappointment is disappointment.
Maximilian Schell

Music in this film is a very important part.
Maximilian Schell

I'm always happy when I'm left alone, but if somebody comes and is nice, then we talk.
Maximilian Schell

I never played the right roles, or very rarely got the right roles offered, except on stage.
Maximilian Schell

The interesting thing is that I found scenes which I put together which could appeal to almost every woman, or apply to almost every woman after the war. Falling in love, dancing, marrying.
Maximilian Schell

And in reality, I don't think it's a real documentary. It's more a story of her life. It's a story of survival. It's a story of the time in which she lived. The story of success and failure.
Maximilian Schell

A conversation goes sometimes into personal things and that's nicer. You look to each other and you have a different picture, you get into a relationship.
Maximilian Schell

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.
Maximilian Schell