So not only can you not imagine dying, you can't really imagine existence before you were born..

I'm very anti-religious because religion tends to disembody you..

For me, it's just a normal artistic endeavour to explore the dark side. Certainly, I'm not alone in it. Artists generally don't like to accept the ve….

The way a child discovers the world constantly replicates the way science began. You start to notice what's around you, and you get very curious abou….

Do you remember when you found out you wouldn't live forever? People don't talk about this, but everybody had to go through it because you're not bor….

As a filmmaker, I ask questions but don't have answers. Moviemaking is a philosophical exploration. I invite the audience to come on the journey and ….

I have a real aversion to ghosts because I don't believe in them. I think ghosts are actually a religious concept, because it means you believe in an….

Re-writing is different from writing. Original writing is very difficult..

All stereotypes turn out to be true. This is a horrifying thing about life. All those things you fought against as a youth: you begin to realize they….

I can't imagine a life without humor. Especially if you have an existential understanding of life, you must acknowledge the absurdity of it all..

I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation. Films that make you confront aspects of your own life that are difficult to face. Just bec….

My understanding of life is very existential. I think that we are our bodies. There's nothing else, and when we die, that's it. No afterlife..

Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab..

Consciousness is the original sin: consciousness of the inevitability of our death..

I'm just observing the world. I was born into it, like you were, and then I found out there were some really disturbing aspects to being alive, like ….

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 tha….

The desire to be loved is really death when it comes to art..

I like to laze around. I think that's a huge part of creativity. You have to let your mind relax and then another part of your brain suddenly connect….

Sex is the invention of a very clever venereal disease..

For me, the first fact of human existence is the human body. But if you embrace the reality of the human body, you embrace mortality, and that is a v….

The artist's duty to himself is a combination of immense responsibility and immense irresponsibility. I think those two interlock..