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 like gardening. I'm really a nature man. I spend as much time as I can in nature. I feel really safe there.

If there are some people that like the film and some people that do not, that's fine for me, because I do not intend to make very broad films.

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

I can't tell you why I choose stuff, it's really something I don't analyse. The only thing I can say is that a film has to demand to be made, I don't have a plan of what films I'm going to make. The only thing that I know now is that I'm not too crazy about doing things again that I've been into before.

I had a lot of frustrations, and I was drinking far too much, and I was just trying to survive and this is what came out of it.

I'm very proud of being persona non grata. I've never been that before in my life, and that suits me extremely wellI'm known for provocations, but I like provocations when they have a purpose. And this had no purpose whatsoever. Because I'm not Mel Gibson. I'm definitely not Mel Gibson.