Just the fact that you're working is good for you.

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

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.

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

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

I am crazy about my own films. The films I've just made I'm crazy about them. But then I don't see them for many years. It's like when you get a new child you're very crazy about this child but then after a few years you're like, "what was its name again?"

I had an almost fetishistic attraction to film technology.