I like being out on a limb and not know what we're doing and why: just deal with it, the mayhem, you know?
I wish I had been born 20 years earlier, so I could have been in the movie business in the 1970s.
I've always been interested in photography. I remember when I was about 14, I spent an entire summer selling lottery tickets in some little booth so I could make enough money to buy an Olympus camera.
When you're young, and you're doing stuff, you're making music, directing, making art, it's all future directed. You want to change stuff onward. And when you get older - this applies to me - you think about the things you want to do and how it will be perceived by your children one day.
Brits are very, very expressive, whereas the Soviet and Eastern European way is much more stern, stone-faced. Vladimir Putin-esque in some way.
Being a police officer in America is a tough job.
All my close friends are non-conformist. To say 'misfits' sounds bad, but there is something positive about being a little on the outside - it gives you an interesting perspective on things - and I think that's something Robyn and I share.
The darkest aspects of imperialism are still very much prevalent in many cultures around the world; hundreds of years later, and we have a collective responsibility to encounter the deeds of our past.
I'm a huge Crowley fan, I've always been. I tried to make a movie on his life a few years ago, but we didn't manage to put it together.
Working with friends isn't easy - the nature of an artistic project means it's about two strong visions colliding and a bit of mental wrestling.
I was a huge fan of this band called Sparks. It was a pretty good inauguration to music, since their music is quite complex.
I love Crowley for being an audacious man at certain point in time. I think he's greatly misunderstood. He was a good guy, but he was portrayed as an evil man, and he wasn't.
You'll find Swedes - maybe not as much as the Finns - thriving in melancholy.
I began my career as a recording artist, and eventually I started directing my own music videos.
If I feel the labor and the gruesome process, that helps me appreciate the art.
I think for something to be beautiful, it has to have some darkness in it; otherwise, it's just pretty. And pretty does not interest me at all.
Whenever I'm making a film, it has to be timeless.
Building a cast is a card house. They lean on each other, provide for each other, and take from each other.
Art is never finished. It is only abandoned.
I like dark, hopeless, beautiful tragedies.
