"I was well aware how extraordinarily difficult it was going to be to make The Hour of the Wolf. But at the same time I felt it to be a challenge, both formal and practical; from the actors' point of view too. The whole time I was working on it I felt enormously stimulated."


"The difficulty with the picture is that I couldn't make up my mind who it was about. Had I made it from her [Alma's] point of view it would have been very interesting. But, no, I made it the wrong way. After it was finished, I tried to turn it over to her; we even reshot some scenes, but it was too late. To see a man who is already mad become crazier is boring. What would have been interesting would have been to see an absolutely sane woman go crazy because she loves the madman she married. She enters his world of unreality, and that infects her. Suddenly, she finds out that she is lost. I understood this only when the picture was finished."