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When Ideas Lead To Ideology, That's A Very Dangerous Thing. Ideology Then Leads To Creating The Image Of An Enemy, And It Leads To The Murder And Massacre.

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.

As A European Filmmaker, You Can Not Make A Genre Film Seriously. You Can Only Make A Parody.

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.

To Be Perfectly Honest, I Think That As I'm Growing Older, I'm Just Growing More Impatient. I'll Be Very Happy If At Some Point People Say, 'michael's Grown Wiser And Softer In His Old Age.' But We'll Have To Wait And See What My Next Project Is.