Lasse Hallstrom Quotes

But now I wish I could back to Stockholm to make international films there.

I am always more interested in performance and character depiction, and my direction says as much.

I'm on this diet where you're supposed to eat only fish and meat.

My father would tell anyone who would listen that this dentist thing he was doing was not his passion; cinematography was.

Cinema has become a global economy, totally international.

I was always attracted by the European way of life, but I am deeply Swedish.

My films do have characters who have trouble escaping the world around them.

My father was an amateur filmmaker who shot 8mm color documentaries.

I love involving actors at all levels - and they have to know that I want to hear their contributions, with dialogue, with story suggestions, with script changes, whatever.

I can't go back and label myself as an outcast because I was a pretty well-adjusted kid, but I can certainly relate to the feeling of being an outsider.

I imagined that it might be awkward to talk to your wife about her performance, so going into it I was a little nervous. But doing it was actually a wonderfully inspiring experience.

I love mixing amateurs and professionals.

But I notice that there is a lack of darkness in my movies and I don't know where that comes from.

To see my wife getting inspired from my notes and thoughts, going in the direction I wanted, and have her surprise me with wonderful choices was a real treat.

ABBA: The Movie; I got a lot of grief for working on that.

I always need a couple of highlights to really spark the passion for a project.

I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.

I think I avoid stepping into sentimentality by trying to be as truthful as possible with performances.

I made all their videos, apart from the last two, so if you ever see an Abba video on TV then it’s my stuff.

My key interest in choosing scripts is character-driven stories, because there are so many stories that sacrifice character for plot.

I always try to preserve my cinematographic style, even while I work in the US. I wish to always be European.

Its just, for me, the natural standard: a woman should be able to decide over her own body.

I feel the need to work with my wife, Lena Olin, again.

[Depp] has real ambitions, but he is deeply afraid of being considered pretentious.

Many of the comedies I had made in Sweden were slightly based on semi-autobiographical experiences, so adapting novels was a very different experience.

I got to work with my wife, Lena Olin, for the first time, which was great. I thought it might be difficult in some way to talk to one's wife in a different way but it was so not forced.

A film that is bleached tends to have a more realistic quality.