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

My films generally center around thousands of pictures being flashed in rapid succession to create the illusion of motion.

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

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.

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.

I am very romantic about communism even still, but I know terrible things happened.

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.