Casting is really a black art. It's a huge part of directing and it's the most invisible. It's one that people don't really think about or talk about. But you can really destroy your movie by casting it badly before you've shot a foot of film. And yet there are no guidebooks for it, there's no rule book to tell you how to do it. It's all your own experience and your own sensibility and your own intuition.

I'm very anti-religious because religion tends to disembody you.

My dentist said to me the other day: I've enough problems in my life, so why should I see your films?

Let's put it this way, when I was casting, I cast Viggo first and then found someone who could play his wife, rather than the other way around. So for me he's still the lead character.

If you put yourself in a group of people you cannot work with it's obviously going to be a disaster.

I'm not very well organized unless I'm plugged into a structure like the opera or a movie. When I'm doing that, I have to be organized.

Well I don't think sex and violence have ever stopped a movie from being mainstream.