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I Think That What's Important As A Director Is To Give Your Actors The Feeling That They're Protected, The Feeling Of Confidence, The Feeling That If They Make Mistakes, Then As A Director, You'll Know How To Help Them. If You're Able To Convey That, Then The Actors Will Give You Wonderful Performances. As Well As The Author, You Have To Write Scenes That Give The Actors The Opportunity To Show What They're Capable Of.

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.

In My Film "benny's Video," I Depicted Violence But I Failed To Say All That I Had To Say, So I Wanted To Continue The Dialog And That's Why I Did "funny Games." The Irony Is That After I Shot "funny Games," But It Hadn't Been Released At All Anywhere.

The Difficulty, Then, Is When You Create A Church, An Institution, And You Create A Dogma. When You Create An Ideology, That's The Danger. Communism, Too, Is A Beautiful Idea, But Millions Of People Died When Communism Became An Ideology.

Film Is Simply The Most Complex Way You Can Express Yourself