I am very romantic about communism even still, but I know terrible things happened.

Political correctness kills discussion.

It’s the opening of Manderlay in Cannes, and I’m sitting next to this guy who’s writing for a tiny fictitious French paper called ‘On the Sunny Side,’ and he’s writing a review on the film, and he’s obviously bored. Then he tells me about all the cars he owns, and how rich he is, and all these things... So, at a certain point, he says, "So what do you do?" Then I take out this very strange hammer we have in the Danish building business, and I say, "I kill." And then I kill him. It is as stupid as it sounds.

Unfortunately, on one or both of my shoulders sits lots of anxiety and that is a controlling factor in my life.

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.

Only a fool does not fear actors, but you can't beat them, and if you can't beat them, join them, as they say. As I've got older I've become very interested in that part of the work

I had an almost fetishistic attraction to film technology.