Know your number. If you don__ know it you might forget who you are.

The People from the horror stories are out there.

We're not in a fairytale story. This is not a movie. Scriptwriters don't write our fates. We do.

Despite the horror, we survivors were endowed with a will to survive. Or instinct. Or maybe it was faith.

To feel our character, our personality, and our personal, hard-won history fade from being is to be exposed to whatever lies beneath these comforting, operational conveniences. What remains when the conscious and functioning self has been erased is mankind's fundamental condition _ irrational, violent, guilt-wracked, despairing, and mad.

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.