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

The cognitive therapy that takes place in the film Antichrist is a form of therapy that I have used for some time, and it has to do with confronting your fears. I would say that especially the part of the film that has to do with therapy is humoristic because people who know about this form of therapy would know that the character is more than a fool.

The secret ingredient to sex is love.

I like gardening. I'm really a nature man. I spend as much time as I can in nature. I feel really safe there.

If people do not laugh it's not comedy.

You could say that when you introduce humour to your work, you also step back a little from it. You create a distance

I had an almost fetishistic attraction to film technology.