When I am creating art, I have absolutely no social responsibility. It's like dreaming.

Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos.

Sex is the invention of a very clever venereal disease.

I'm simply a nonbeliever and have been forever. ... I'm interested in saying, 'Let us discuss the existential question. We are all going to die, that is the end of all consciousness. There is no afterlife. There is no God. Now what do we do.' That's the point where it starts getting interesting to me.

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

When I am creating art, I have absolutely no social responsibility. It's like dreaming.

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.