I don't think that any Icelandic filmmaker feels like he belongs to Icelandic filmmaking, because nobody really knows what it is.

Usually the script is much more funny than the film turns out to be, in my case. The script is almost like a comic book but when you start making it, for some reason the film gets very serious.

I used to be a huge fan. "The Simpsons" taught me a lot about filmmaking. It imitates film, but it's drawn, so everything is super clear

Some people will only value what they HAVE when it becomes what they HAD

If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

The hard rain nailed the night to the city.

Renounce to the desire of possessing worldly things: this is the first step in the path of perfection; by mean of this absolute untie is how the passions can be fought.

For me, temptation is life and I have a gargantuan appetite for everything.

The basic idea was that if a country would put its economy as an integrated piece of the world system, that it would benefit from that with economic growth. I concur with that basic view.

To a valet no man is a hero.

Fingernails are for opening things and toenails are for storing precious minerals off the ground.

Yeah, I think on my resume it still says that - that I can juggle.

I'm not ridiculously wealthy, but I don't squander money either.