From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment.

It's the Treatment.

He's never done the show before, but I've had many, not many, a couple conversations with John

and Glazer.

It's always great talking to him and his new film, an adaptation of the zone of interest.

First of all, thanks so much for being here.

Thanks for having me.

In your works, they're not genre pieces, but they're about worlds that have genres built around them.

And worlds that we have specific emotional responses to.

And as often as not, we're made aware of how absurd these worlds are

because of the intensity surrounding them.

All these things come into play in looking at Martin Amos' zone of interest.

But you chose to really, I don't want to say

strip it down, but there's a reduction that takes place here that makes it as much about

the place as the people in it.

Well, it's interesting.

That was my first sort of visceral response to Auschwitz, the first time I went, was that

any film I was going to make here, and I didn't at the time know what it would be. I'd read

the Martin Amos book by that point, and I was aware, you know, I'd started to sort of think about

moving away from the narrative of the book towards the real people, real people responsible for

those in charge of those crimes at Auschwitz, that he based his characters on.

So I sort of knew that I was headed, I was going to get down my own road with it.

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