Richard Raaphorst

"That image kept haunting me for years and took me into the industrial look of the designs."

"They become monsters… They're more like machines, like monsters."

"I chose a visual language based on what was around in 1945… I couldn't use any CGI because there was none in that time frame. I kept to movie‑making as it was done in the early days."

"It means that I had to keep finding alternatives that often led to much more creative solutions than I'd thought of in the first place."

"The way war makes people become monsters. They forget what normality is and end up infecting other people and turning them into monsters."

"My father worked for an oil company and he took me to work with him once. I was so impressed by the size of the equipment, the sounds, the smells, etc. I used to dress up as all kinds of industrial monsters."

"Interviewer: What inspires you as a filmmaker? Richard Raaphorst: Music inspires me more than anything, specifically instrumental. When I hear a great soundtrack or even classical music, I start seeing things."