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

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

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.

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.

The dead are way more organized than the living.

I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.

A society that has no wrongs will soon have no rights.

You'd think the Angel would have been foresighted enough to give us a birth-control rune, but no dice.

I'm quitting the business today. I'm going to open up an appliance store, I've always really been into toasters. I'm giving it all up.

As a child, we couldn't afford holidays overseas, so instead I travelled through books. I was inspired by Dr Dolittle and Tarzan.

I'm not inspired by songwriting at all; that took place years ago. I'm pretty well established, as far as my influences go. I don't listen to music anymore. It all sounds the same to me.

If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world?

They say learning to love yourself, Is the first step, That you take when you want to be real...

There's a flip side to having prominent public intellectuals, which is that they start meddling in politics and often with quite disastrous results.