Uwe Boll Video Interview Part 2 On His Film Philosophy, Answering His Critics

I mean, I worked with sales companies and different companies. And in 2005 I changed that, I said we sell our movies and on our own, and worldwide, and because I’ve made so many movies it makes sense. I mean if you only make every two years a movie it’s tough to have your own sales operation but if you release two to three movies a year, which I did for a long time, you have a lot of movies going and then you can actually have direct deals with outlets like Netflix or whatever in a worldwide distribution. For me, it was also very good that I did it because now I have cash flow running through the sales operation that I can make movies with. So as a producer, normally you sit there and you hope for the best basically. And then you start doing your next project when money comes in from the last project and I have a lot of movies from certain party producers I sell, not only my movies so this brings me in a position to say, ‘I can go on a risk and spend a million or two million additional money as a source to make a movie.

The problem is that it’s actually true. You know, we’re living in a world where now we basically pump a lot of cheap money into the market. The stock market is almost on an all-time high again and it’s very problematic. I read an article in the New York Times two weeks ago, it was scary! They said it’s like it’s another balloon and if it explodes, this time there will be no bailouts. Because let’s face it, another bailout, then the U.S, Germany are bankrupt. This is another situation, we cannot afford it. It’s one of the reasons I made the movie also, it needs a regulation. What a lot of people are asking for is to split banks up into the normal part, what part has your money and my money and where mortgages are in and the investment banking part. The investment banking part I think also has to be separate. If they go under then they should go under and nobody should help them to basically pay there because we know their losses, so that part where our money is in or the mortgages are in must be safe. And I mean this was a threat in 2008. The threat was nobody has any money anymore. If we don’t bail out the banks now, the world is going under because in the wake we have chaos on the streets. This was the threat the banks told to the President and to everybody and then they got all that I think this was a bluff. It was a bluff and it totally worked! It got all the money. The biggest problem was that nobody put some rules. If I had somebody in front of me and they said, 'Can you give me $100 billion or the world goes under.' You say, ‘Ok, I give you the $100 billion but you’re not getting any salary anymore ever or you get 50 years in jail. I come up with these conditions, I dictate conditions and say, ‘Your manager, no one makes more than 100 billion bucks per year as long as we don’t have our money completely back. Why is it they didn’t do this? I mean if I had a desperate person in front of me I could dictate the rules right? But no, they gave them in a way unconditional the money and they used it to just keep their investment banking going. It’s amazing and it’s absolutely unacceptable. It should be on the political papers everyday, they should discuss it till they solve it. There has to be a banking regulation, it has to happen. It’s always another thing: Freedom, freedom, freedom! Everybody should have a gun because we should be free. It’s absurd. There are so many rules, it needs a regulation. Democracy means not that the government is not doing anything, democracy means that the government has to regulate what is really fair for everybody and that it is safe.

I was very upset so I said, let’s box in the rings or lets box the critics and stuff like this. I’ve also answered very unfair reviewers and I answer on the same level and I think it is important to not ignore them. If someone answers... I say, ‘You’re just an asshole.’ I’m not the personality type. A lot of people I talk to a lot of directors tell me not to answer. If somebody talks back to me I talk back; it’s just how you grow up or whatever. I’m not the guy you can just bash in to the ground without a reaction.