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 think that limitations are the most important part of any art form

More than anything, there are more images in evil. Evil is based far more on the visual, whereas good has no good images at all.

You know, I really do have some morals. I do actually care about people. And I do have a political standpoint.

Even if you feel all right, tell the actors you don't have full power, and they will help you.

When I show a film at a festival, I am showing myself. Everything is at stake for me.

There is no creative expression of artistic value that has ever been produced by ex-drunkards and ex-drug-addicts. Who the hell would bother with a Rolling Stones without booze or with a Jimi Hendrix without heroin?