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.

It is boring to have all the answers. Only political people have answers.

I never suffered from the absence of a father. On the contrary, as a child I was more inclined to see men as a disturbing factor. It made things difficult for me when I started working as a director.

My feeling, however, is that films that are open are more productive for the audience. The films that, if I'm in a cinema, and I'm watching a movie that answers all the questions that it raises, it's a film that bores me. In the same way, if I'm reading a book that doesn't leave me with questions, moving questions, that I feel confronted with, then for me it's a waste of time. I don't want to read a book that simply confirms what I already know.

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.

As a private person, professionally I am invisible.