If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.

Basically, I'm afraid of everything in life, except filmmaking.

I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden.

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

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 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.

Political correctness kills discussion.