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….

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

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..

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

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

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….

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 ….

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

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 ….

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..

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….

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….

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….

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….

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….

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….

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….

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

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

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

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