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Personally, I Can't Stand Violence. In Any Standard American Mainstream Movie, There's 20 Times More Violence Than In Any One Of My Films, So I Don't Know Why Those Directors Aren't Asked Why They're Such Specialists For Violence.

Pornography, It Seems To Me, Is No Different From War Films Or Propaganda Films In That It Tries To Make The Visceral, Horrific, Or Transgressive Elements Of Life Consumable.

Of Course I Am A Child Of European Culture. There Are A Number Of Great Directors From Which I Learned, But There Is Nobody In Particular I Got Inspired From.

I Give The Spectator The Possibility Of Participating. The Audience Completes The Film By Thinking About It; Those Who Watch Must Not Be Just Consumers Ingesting Spoon-fed Images.

The Difficulty, Then, Is When You Create A Church, An Institution, And You Create A Dogma. When You Create An Ideology, That's The Danger. Communism, Too, Is A Beautiful Idea, But Millions Of People Died When Communism Became An Ideology.