You are able to destroy everything but if you meet up with someone who is already destroyed, who is definitely on the edge between the life and the death, then these people have to stop. And everyone who has human being, who has humanity, has to stop.

This is my illusion – I believe still in humanity, and I believe still everybody has this humanity because it's in the blood. I know this is a delusion, but I want to believe.

Bela Tarr, interviewed