I am a man of very many anxieties but doing strange things with the camera is not one of them.

That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, so you don't have to worry about them

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

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.

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.

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

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.