How must we imagine your actual script to look like?

It���s a written book that is rather open and loose, a statement of intent that sometimes describes what we���re looking for, or a subtext. It can be very detailed in respect to dialogues. During the actual shoot, it is very important for me to put this script aside and only remember it. And then I tell the actors what I remember and together we then rehearse the dialogue. This then takes the form of trial and error, a process through which the characters make the lines of dialogue their own, and I find that works very well. I found it very inspiring to read an interview with Milo�� Forman in which he explains that for his film ��ern�� Petr (Black Peter, 1964) he gave the actors the script and then a week before shooting he demanded of them to return it. So they had a general notion of the story and the dialogue, but they were forced to work only with what they remembered ��� this process I found fascinating, so I stole it.

Valeska Grisebach, interviewed