The Dumber People Are, The More They

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.

It Became A Gamble To Myself Whether I Was Able To Do The Exact Same Film ["funny Games"]under Very Different Circumstances.

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.

A Strict Form Such As Mine Cannot Be Achieved Through Improvisation.

For Me, It's Always Difficult When A Historical Film Claims To Depict Or Represent A Reality That None Of Us Can Know, That Is Always Different. It's Always The Case. We Never Know What Happened Then. So My Approach With The Narrator Is To Question That, To Leave That Open, To Underline The Fact That This Is Uncertain.