It's Much Harder To Write A Script

Of Course There Are Many Films About The Period Of Fascism Itself But I Don't Know Of Any About That Period Beforehand. But It Wasn't That Specific Fact That They Weren't There That Got Me To Think About This In The First Place. It's Not What Led To The Basic Idea For The Film, Although It Became Apparent When I Began To Think About It.

My Films Are Intended As Polemical Statements Against The American 'barrel Down' Cinema And Its Dis-empowerment Of The Spectator. They Are An Appeal For A Cinema Of Insistent Questions Instead Of False (because Too Quick) Answers, For Clarifying Distance In Place Of Violating Closeness, For Provocation And Dialogue Instead Of Consumption And Consensus.

There Are Really Two Types Of Laughter On The Part Of The Spectator. There Is The Laughter Of Recognition - Which Means Seeing Things You're Familiar With And Laughing At Yourself. But There's Also Hysterical Laughter - A Way Of Dealing With The Things We See That Upset Us.

It's Much Harder To Write A Script That Involves Two People In A Single Location Than 20 People In 30 Different Locations.

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.