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.

That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, so you don't have to worry about them

I hope my films will never completely be without the ability to mark anybody.

If I made a musical in the beginning of my career, it would have been crane shots and tracking shots and people coming out of cakes and whatever, but these techniques are something that I’ve left behind me.

I am not very tough with raising my children, but you can argue that to be more tough will help your children.

Evil gives you far more strings to pull. But I must say that I have never been interested in the psychology of evil, not in the slightest. Perhaps I'm not interested in evil, but in the dark sides of human beings.