Perhaps the only difference between me and other people is that Ive always demanded more from the sunset.

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

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

If you want to provoke, you should provoke someone who is stronger than you, otherwise you are misusing your power.

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

It’s the opening of Manderlay in Cannes, and I’m sitting next to this guy who’s writing for a tiny fictitious French paper called ‘On the Sunny Side,’ and he’s writing a review on the film, and he’s obviously bored. Then he tells me about all the cars he owns, and how rich he is, and all these things... So, at a certain point, he says, "So what do you do?" Then I take out this very strange hammer we have in the Danish building business, and I say, "I kill." And then I kill him. It is as stupid as it sounds.

I encouraged the cast to make up their own lines.