It's the duty of art to ask questions, not to provide answers. And if you want a clearer answer, I'll have to pass.

It became a gamble to myself whether I was able to do the exact same film ["Funny Games"]under very different circumstances.

I consider all my films experiments.

Awards are important for all directors because they improve your working conditions. You're only as good as your last film, so if you get prizes or large audiences, then you get more money for your next film.

And if there was one title that could be applied to all my films, it would be 'Civil War' - not civil war in the way we know it, but the daily war that goes on between us all.

It's much harder to write a script that involves two people in a single location than 20 people in 30 different locations.

I'm not really a happy person. It's a question of temperament. I have a tendency toward melancholy. You can feel quite happily melancholic.