Of Course, We Avoid Death.

As A European Filmmaker, You Can Not Make A Genre Film Seriously. You Can Only Make A Parody.

You Cannot Hurt Animals, So What Do I Do? I Kill The Dog First. Then I Do It With The Boy. You're Not Supposed To Break The Illusion Of This Being A Film, So I Make The Actor Talk To The Audience. Provocation Is The Principle Of The Whole Film [ Funny Games]. It Is Very Ironic.

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.

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.

Well, The First Thing I Had To Do Was To Read A Lot. First Of All, About Education... And Looking At Education From The Middle Ages Right Through To The 20th Century. The Second Major Area Was Country Life In The 19th Century, Which I Don't Know Much About These Days.