Some audiences might find homosexuality an uncomfortable subject matter, and a character who is a Japanese collaborator is always uncomfortable.

I love Philip Glass' work, not only as a film composer but also as a musician. The film score work that he does always amazes and shocks me.

I'd like to do a really masculine film.

The point of revenge is not in the completion but in the process.

I guess I probably make violent films partly because I can't express my anger in my real life very well.

In our lives, we have good things and bad things, happiness and pain.

I've always had an interest in vampire films - not just 'Nosferatu,' but there are many others that I have enjoyed: Abel Ferrara,Coppola, Neil Jordan.