I think working with actors is a little bit how a chef would work with a potato or a piece of meat. You have to kind of have a look at the potato or the piece of meat and see what kind of possibilities are in the ingredient. I know I'm using the wrong metaphor. I think my job is to see what potato is there and from there, just work under their conditions.

Far be it from me to force anyone into either chess or dressage, but if you choose to do so yourself, in my opinion there is only one way: follow the rules.

I know that I cannot be with a person for three hours without saying at least ten things that would kill me.

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’m having a vacation and it’s so beautiful and maybe I’ll never get another film idea in my life.

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.

Political correctness kills discussion.