I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching I think.
It's funny - if you impersonate somebody they have no idea it's them.
When I first envisioned 'Funny Games' in the mid-1990s it was my intention to have an American audience watch the movie. It is a reaction to a certain American cinema its violence its naivety the way American cinema toys with human beings. In many American films violence is made consumable.