It's A Fact That People Who Are

If You Go With The Principle, You Should Go With The Principle. If I Really Saw The Subject Very Differently Than Ten Years Ago, I Would Have Done A Different Movie.

Film Is The Manipulative Medium Par Excellence. When You Think Back On The History Of Film And The 20th Century, You See The Propaganda That's Been Made. So There Are Moral Demands On The Director To Treat The Spectators As Seriously As He Or She Takes Himself And Not To See Them Merely As Victims That Can Be Manipulated To Whatever Ends They Have.

The Smaller And Younger Kids Are, The More Patient You Have To Be. But If They're Gifted, Then It's A Wonderful Present That You're Given By Having A Child Like That In Your Film... More So Than In The Case Of Actors Because, For Example, If You Ask Them To Play A Lion, They Don't Then Play A Lion, They Actually Are A Lion. So, A Gifted Child Is Something Very Special. On The Other Hand, If A Child Has No Gifts In That Way It's Absolutely Hopeless And There's Nothing You Can Do!

Well, The First Thing I Had To Do Was To Read A Lot. First Of All, About Education... And Looking At Education From The Middle Ages Right Through To The 20th Century. The Second Major Area Was Country Life In The 19th Century, Which I Don't Know Much About These Days.

Writers And Filmakers, That Is, People Who Describe The World, Suffer From An Occupational Disease. They Never Experience Moments In Life Quite Spontaneously. You Always Look At Yourself From The Outside. Even As A Child I Always Observed Myself And The World. I Believe That Everyone Who Chooses This Path In Any Way, Who Chooses To Be A Describer Of Life, Suffers From This Condition. It's Like A Mental Obsession. It Can Be A Great Pity Too. It Robs You Of A Certain Joy In Spontaneity.