Only God Forgives was very much a generation gap in a way. It was all the youth of the world that embraced it. I make films for young people. That's what I will continue to do.

Abbey Lee was a very famous model and had great success. She was very open about the negative aspects of that industry.

The Oriental approach to violence is a much more aesthetic and poetic approach, whereas in the western world, violence is put in because you can't solve the problem. Violence is always the last solution, but unfortunately, in cinema, it's the first solution, because it's easy. And it's often too easy.

I always say I have a Danish passport, but I am a New Yorker at heart.

I think that experiencing through art is a wonderful way to expand the horizon and everything around it.

Like all art forms, film is a media as powerful as weapons of mass destruction; the only difference is that war destroys and film inspires.

But once you get down to reality, there's no one to play her and there's no movie. It would be ridiculous.