The Dumber People Are, The

Film Is 24 Lies Per Second At The Service Of Truth, Or At The Service Of The Attempt To Find The Truth.

My Mother As A Young Girl Went Out With A Young Ss Officer And She Didn't Really Know What Was Going On - She Just Liked The Uniform. When He Told Her About The Things That He Did, She Was Disgusted And Broke Up With Him.

I Consider All My Films Experiments.

It's Difficult Because You Can't Generalise About These Things. But In Essence, You Deal With Children As Simply As You Deal With Actors - You Have To Show A Certain Sort Of Respect. You Deal With Them Lovingly And Protect Them, But If You Protect Them Enough Then They're Open To Engage With What You Want To Do With Them.

The Film [the White Ribbon] Does Try To Use German Fascism As An Example, But Not Specifically Fascism... The Results Of German Fascism. It Shows How People Are Prepared Or Indoctrinated For An Ideology... People Who Are Already In A State Of Repression Who Have Been Humiliated By Society And Who Clasp At A Straw That's Offered To Them. And How That's Then Developed Into A Form Of Indoctrination.