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I Never Think In Terms Of Alienation; It's The Others Who Do. Alienation Means One Thing To Hegel, Another To Marx And Yet Another To Freud; So It Is Not Possible To Give A Single Definition, One That Will Exhaust The Subject. It Is A Question Bordering On Philosophy, And I'm Not A Philosopher Nor A Sociologist. My Business Is To Tell Stories, To Narrate With Images - Nothing Else. If I Do Make Films About Alienation - To Use That Word That Is So Ambiguous - They Are About Characters, Not About Me.

I Want My Characters To Suggest The Background In Themselves, Even When It Is Not Visible. I Want Them To Be So Powerfully Realized That We Cannot Imagine Them Apart From Their Physical And Social Context Even When We See Them In Empty Space.

It's Obvious That I Must Explain What I Want From An Actor, But I Don't Want To Discuss Everything I Ask Him To Do, Because Often My Requests Are Completely Instinctive And There Are Things I Can't Explain. It's Like Painting: You Don't Know Why You Use Pink Instead Of Blue. You Simply Feel That's How It Should Be - Pink. Then The Phone Rings And You Answer It. When You Come Back, You Don't Want Pink Anymore And You Use Blue - Without Knowing Why. You Can't Help It; That's Just The Way It Is.

When I See A Good Film, It's Like A Whiplash. I Run Away, In Order Not To Be Influenced. Thus, The Films I Liked Most Are Those I Think Least About.

All I Know Is That We Are Loaded Down With Old And Stale Stuff - Habits, Customs, Old Attitudes Already Dead And Gone.