I did a lot of strange things. But I am a bad Catholic that's for sure. Although I think it's difficult to believe in evil.

I think that limitations are the most important part of any art form

One of the things that got me thinking during therapy is that they say that fear is only thoughts, and nothing will happen because thoughts will never be real. And my thesis, or joke, in film Antichrist, is that they really do become real.

When I was younger, I was fascinated by David Bowie, for example. he had created an entire myth around himself. It was as important as his music.

There is no creative expression of artistic value that has ever been produced by ex-drunkards and ex-drug-addicts. Who the hell would bother with a Rolling Stones without booze or with a Jimi Hendrix without heroin?

I always do something that I’ve never done before...

It is more difficult to manipulate with film than, for instance, video. The problem with video is that it gives you a thousand possibilities.