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.

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

I understand Hitler... I sympathise with him a little bit.

Evil gives you far more strings to pull. But I must say that I have never been interested in the psychology of evil, not in the slightest. Perhaps I'm not interested in evil, but in the dark sides of human beings.

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

If people do not laugh it's not comedy.

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.