All Stereotypes Turn Out To Be True.

Well I Don't Think Sex And Violence Have Ever Stopped A Movie From Being Mainstream.

It Was Apparent To Me That Religion Was An Invented Thing, A Wish-fulfillment Thing, A Fantasy Thing. It Was Much More Real, Dangerous, To Accept That Mortality Was The End For You As An Individual. As An Atheist, I Don't Believe In An Afterlife, So If You're Thinking Of Murder, If Your Subject Is Murder, Then That's A Physical Act Of Absolute Destruction Because You're Ending Something, A Body, That Is Unique. That Person Never Existed Before, Will Never Exist Again, Will Not Be Karmically Recycled, Will Not Go To Heaven, Therefore I Take It Seriously.

Let's Put It This Way, When I Was Casting, I Cast Viggo First And Then Found Someone Who Could Play His Wife, Rather Than The Other Way Around. So For Me He's Still The Lead Character.

When We Talk About Violence, We're Talking About The Destruction Of The Human Body, And I Don't Lose Sight Of That. In General, My Filmmaking Is Fairly Body-oriented, Because What You're Photographing Is People, Bodies.

Nah, I've Done Sex Scenes Before, You Know, Like In Video.