[on re-creating Nazi Germany for
Jojo Rabbit (2019)] Most of the people you talk to have a couple of generational stories that they would tell when swastikas would be flying on those flag poles and now they're back again. It's actually not as taboo a subject as you might think in Germany or the Czech Republic. It is part of something that people just refuse to forget about. It's not something to be covered up, it's something to be remembered and made sure that the next generation of young people understand the sheer enormity of what went on in the Second World War. The opportunity for dialogue was great for the aesthetics, but it also gave us legitimacy with what we were doing. [Jan. 2020]
