I've Never Let Producers Tell Me What

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

It Is Boring To Have All The Answers. Only Political People Have Answers.

The Trouble Is That When You Read Criticisms About The Other Films That I've Made You Get The Impression That They're All About Themes, Or Problems, Or Ideas. But Those Are Actually Things That Develop Out Of Characters, Out Of Images And Out Of Other Things. These More Abstract Things Develop While Working On The Material, And Out Of It. It's Not A Theoretical Exercise From The Outset.

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.

As A Private Person, Professionally I Am Invisible.