It's The Duty Of Art To Ask

Of Course I Am A Child Of European Culture. There Are A Number Of Great Directors From Which I Learned, But There Is Nobody In Particular I Got Inspired From.

The Difficulty, Then, Is When You Create A Church, An Institution, And You Create A Dogma. When You Create An Ideology, That's The Danger. Communism, Too, Is A Beautiful Idea, But Millions Of People Died When Communism Became An Ideology.

In My Film "benny's Video," I Depicted Violence But I Failed To Say All That I Had To Say, So I Wanted To Continue The Dialog And That's Why I Did "funny Games." The Irony Is That After I Shot "funny Games," But It Hadn't Been Released At All Anywhere.

There Is Just As Much Evil In All Of Us As There Is Good. We're All Continuously Guilty, Even If We're Not Doing It Intentionally To Be Evil. Here We Are Sitting In Luxury Hotels, Living It Up On The The Backs Of Others In The Third World. We All Have A Guilty Conscience, But We Do Very Little About It.

If A Director Says He Doesn't Care How Many People See His Films At All, I Simply Don't Believe Him. Otherwise Why Would He Bother To Make The Film? The Only Explanation Would Be That It Would Be An Act Of Masturbation. I Think That Every Creator Is Looking For A Receptor. He's Looking For An Audience. There Are Two Parts Of The Equation: A Creator And, Necessarily, The Receiver Of The Work. It's The Same Thing For A Painter Who Wants His Paintings To Be Seen.