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I'd even say it's a realistic film because that's the way it happens in our heads; that was the idea.

Sometimes movies gloss over things, and it was important to me that this was realistic.

You make a film you feel is as real as possible and hope people react as though it were real.

Even for the most difficult scenes, and there are difficult scenes in the film, and because Michael Haneke is such a great film-maker - I think a great film-maker is not only being inspired, but how to do it, how to make it as real as possible, knowing that it's not real.

I've kind of come to the conclusion that what passes for realism in movies has nothing to do with reality and that my stuff is more realistic than that.

Make acting seem real and as if it weren't acting. Just make it real.

When you make a film that is based in reality, reality will come up all around it.

Real acting is realistic no matter what the medium.

I try not to do scenes a certain way, because then I become conscious of it, and it dosen't come off as realistic. I try to make it so that I'm not really aware of what I'm doing.

You can say to actors that you've got to be the character and really get into it, but you have to make it realistic by bringing an element of yourself into it.