Overview
- The 68-year-old told the Deutsche Presse-Agentur in Hamburg that society faces a "gigantic paradigm shift."
- He warned that people will "soon consist only of zeros and ones" and added, "I am a 7."
- He condemned casting based on social-media follower counts, calling the practice "horror" and "the destruction of art."
- He said his age spares him from these "stupid structures," while colleagues 10 to 20 years younger face a "bitter" situation.
- The comments were reported by dpa and widely republished by Stern, Die Zeit, and Der Spiegel, which also note his current film with Anke Engelke.