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

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.

Everything good starts with caring.

We take the names of madmen, because madness is our fate. Terribly melodramatic, that.

If Metias joined the Patriots, he'd be a Hacker too. If he were alive.

At age 77, I need the help of someone with more energy than I can now summon to finish a book

Life and death are like inhalation and exhalation. They always exist together.

When you're supposed to be close and friends in the film, the moment you're talking as friends off the set, it makes it that much better when you're filming.

If life was so easy that you could just go buy success, there would be a lot more successful companies in the world. Successful enterprises are built from the ground up.

I've always liked dressing up. And I love a high heel - the higher the better. I just feel funny in flats.

Tragic heroes always moan when the gods take an interest in them, but it's the people the gods ignore who get the really tough deals