If you try to act, you're going to look like you're acting. So don't act.

I think a movie is a media that is evoking feelings.

The most mysterious feminine factor, the existence that we men, we don't know. It's woman. It's feminine. That's what the sword is about. That's the symbolic meaning of the sword.

To me, Ennis stands for the conservative side of America. He's the biggest homophobe in the whole movie - culturally and psychologically - but by the time he admits his feelings, it's too late.

I have a lot of repression. So repression is what I make movies about.

So many times you see beautiful lovemaking scenes with a lot of exposure or an awkward lovemaking scene, but I think it's very rare that you see it private.

I'm a drifter and an outsider. There's not one single environment I can totally belong to.