Quotes from Sebastian Koch movies and TV shows

Georg Dreyman: You are a great artist. I know that, and your audience knows it, too. You don't need him. You don't need him. Stay here. Don't go to him.
Christa-Maria Sieland: No? I don't need him? Don't I need this whole system? What about you? Then you don't need it either, or need it even less. But you get in bed with them, too. Why do you do it? Because they can destroy you too, despite your talent and your faith. Because they decide what we play, who is to act, and who can direct.

Georg Dreyman: You know what Lenin said about Beethoven's Appassionata, 'If I keep listening to it, I won't finish the revolution.' Can anyone who has heard this music, I mean truly heard it, really be a bad person?

Kurt Barnert: You smoke?
Professor Carl Seeband: Sixty-three is the right age to start. The consequences will hardly catch up with me.

NKWD Major Murawjow: If my child were born with health problems, should it be put to death?
Professor Carl Seeband: It so happens that space and resources on this earth are limited. Who should have them? The healthy or the sick?
NKWD Major Murawjow: Soon there will be one more place available on this earth.