I always ask myself one question: what is human? What does it mean to be human? Maybe people will consider my new films brutal again. But this violence is just a reflection of what they really are, of what is in each one of us to certain degree.
Human nature being what it was, the only time you could really be sure you weren__ being lied to was when you were talking to yourself.
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