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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.

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!

I Give The Spectator The Possibility Of Participating. The Audience Completes The Film By Thinking About It; Those Who Watch Must Not Be Just Consumers Ingesting Spoon-fed Images.

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.

It's A Fact That People Who Are In A Weakened Position, Whether Physically Or Mentally, Have This Perception Of The Outer World As Threatening. Everything That Is Unexpected Or Unknown Is Seen As A Potential Danger.