I Never Suffered From The Absence Of

In German. I'm More Sensitized To The Details, To The Emotions. In English, I Wouldn't Detect As Much Nuance.

It's Difficult Because You Can't Generalise About These Things. But In Essence, You Deal With Children As Simply As You Deal With Actors - You Have To Show A Certain Sort Of Respect. You Deal With Them Lovingly And Protect Them, But If You Protect Them Enough Then They're Open To Engage With What You Want To Do With Them.

I Make My Films Because I'm Affected By A Situation, By Something That Makes Me Want To Reflect On It, That Lends Itself To An Artistic Reflection. I Always Aim To Look Directly At What I'm Dealing With. I Think It's A Task Of Dramatic Art To Confront Us With Things That In The Entertainment Industry Are Usually Swept Under The Rug.

And If There Was One Title That Could Be Applied To All My Films, It Would Be 'civil War' - Not Civil War In The Way We Know It, But The Daily War That Goes On Between Us All.

Personally, I Can't Stand Violence. In Any Standard American Mainstream Movie, There's 20 Times More Violence Than In Any One Of My Films, So I Don't Know Why Those Directors Aren't Asked Why They're Such Specialists For Violence.