It's a great relief to feel that you're working with someone rather than for someone. You don't feel that you're being tested, as it were.

I put everything I can into the mulberry of my mind and hope that it is going to ferment and make a decent wine. How that process happens, I'm sorry to tell you I can't describe.

I love working with Lars [von Trier]! I've worked with him three times. I did the narration of Dogville and Manderlay.

I think you can fan the flames, but I think in the same way that a mathematician is a mathematician - He's not taught to be a mathematician. He either has a feeling for equations and an understanding and delight in it, not only in the purity of it, but in its beauty as well.

As Beckett said, it's not enough to die, one has to be forgotten as well.

In the States it's more and more difficult to get an independent film off the ground, and you certainly wont get the opportunity to play something like that in a studio movie.

I've never known what I've wanted to do. I've never planned anything in my life.