At a certain point the audience shouldn't worry about catching every word and understanding every twist and turn, because at a certain point that's pretty much impossible.

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.

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

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

So not only can you not imagine dying, you can't really imagine existence before you were born.

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?