I am the best film director in the world.
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.
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.
A film should be like a rock in the shoe.
A film has to be like a stone in the shoe.
If there are some people that like the film and some people that do not, that's fine for me, because I do not intend to make very broad films.
It is more difficult to manipulate with film than, for instance, video. The problem with video is that it gives you a thousand possibilities.
I hope my films will never completely be without the ability to mark anybody.
I had an almost fetishistic attraction to film technology.
I am crazy about my own films. The films I've just made I'm crazy about them. But then I don't see them for many years. It's like when you get a new child you're very crazy about this child but then after a few years you're like, "what was its name again?"
I’m having a vacation and it’s so beautiful and maybe I’ll never get another film idea in my life.
It's always been a lie that it's difficult to make films.
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.
My films generally center around thousands of pictures being flashed in rapid succession to create the illusion of motion.
The cognitive therapy that takes place in the film Antichrist is a form of therapy that I have used for some time, and it has to do with confronting your fears. I would say that especially the part of the film that has to do with therapy is humoristic because people who know about this form of therapy would know that the character is more than a fool.
When I was in film school, it was said that all good films were characterised by some form of humour.
When I show a film at a festival, I am showing myself. Everything is at stake for me.
We start with a rehearsal where the actors kind of bring what they think should be in the scene. But we film everything, and we use cuts of this first take, also.
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