"Silence!" "Because he really is, as we mentioned, the orchestra leader who must conduct all those working under him to produce a coherent, harmonious concert." "Once his collaborators understood his intention and what he wanted, what he believed would make the most consistent statement, then he gave them free rein." "But they had to understand his approach completely before that would happen." "At the end of the script, the village doctor, the vampire's accomplice... was to flee the village." "In the middle of a marsh he was to fall into a mire where, unable to save himself, he would lose his life." "One day we set out to find a suitable mire, and we drove around looking at marshes." "But we discovered a house by the road where strange white shadows danced around the windows and doors as though some white fire inside was throwing off clear flames through the openings and cracks." "We couldn't resist." "We had to explore that white fire." "We went inside and saw some dark silhouettes walking around a grindstone, making plaster of Paris." "The air was thick with fine powder." "When we saw that, we knew what our style had to be:" "black silhouettes against a white background." "So we had to think of the ending taking place inside a white mill." "We knew then how the doctor should die:" "He'd be suffocated under an endless stream of milled flour." "We had planned on a rather heavy style, but by chance we discovered something much better, so we changed our plans." "Examining the first rushes... we stopped at a scene that seemed to have been shot in fog, a muddle of grayish white." "To us this was the solution, at least for the interiors." "NIGHTSTICKS AT VIENNESE THEATER SCANDAL AT SCREENING OF VAMPYR" "But the dogs!" "There are no children or dogs here!"