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

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

What we're doing for another person is more important than what we're feeling for them.

Drama lives on conflict. If you're trying to deal with social issues seriously, there's no way of avoiding violence, which is so present in society.

I want to be able to control things and that's very difficult to do if you're not 100% in a particular language. It makes you uncertain and it makes you nervous.

In terms of cinema and filmmaking, there are certainly the unexpected gifts that the actors bestow on you. Film is always a question of compromises with respect to what you originally intended.

To me, it's far more efficient to mobilize the imagination. It's far more efficient to hear a creaking step, for example, than to see the face of a monster, which usually looks ridiculous, and where you know that the blood is ketchup.