Everything is going to hell, but we should smile all the way.

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 people do not laugh it's not comedy.

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

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 could say that when you introduce humour to your work, you also step back a little from it. You create a distance

I'm not a woman! Let's make that very clear! Oh I don't know, maybe I am. I am an American woman. Or 65 percent of me is.