Basically, I'm afraid of everything in life, except filmmaking.

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

I am a man of very many anxieties but doing strange things with the camera is not one of them.

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.

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

If there are some people that like the film and some people that do not, that's fine for me, because I do not intend to make very broad films.

I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden.