I will always find something that I want to try and become better at. I always love to spend more time with my friends, more time with my family, my extended family. I always want to read more books.

I'm definitely more attracted to chaos than to order. The point is, I find the female roles out there very cliché. If we are limited to being only lovers or mothers, we are limiting ourselves.

As an artist you actually do have to make a choice to be an outsider. If you're an outsider you have the freedom to say what people on the inside don't dare to say.

I'm definitely more attracted to chaos than to order.

I don't think I can remember a moment in my life where people didn't discuss politics. People discuss politics at the table.

We have a certain warped sense of humor in Scandinavia, and that is what comes across in the choices in a lot of our movies.

TV is a different animal these days. You can bring together really smart writing and directing, in-depth character development and really meaty political and emotional stories.

A role can go from being a babe to anything, as long as it's something that makes me curious.

I say no to a lot of things that just don't fit my life. I involve my kids in what I'm struggling with so they don't compete with it.

Life is a state of give and take.

All of the wars in the world are fueled by power struggles either at individual, national or international levels

The only answer to fear is faith in God, knowing He loves you unconditionally and individually.

I sometimes wonder how we spent leisure time before satellite television and Internet came along…and then I realise that I have spent more than half of my life in the ‘dark ages’!

Dude,” I said, leaning over the desk, “I’m about as psychic as a carrot.

Desiring things widely different for their various tastes.

To see the best before I have properly begun would be somewhat premature.

I think first-person narrators should be complex, because otherwise the first-person is too shallow and predictable. I like a first-person narrator who can't totally be trusted.

I will weep no more for the lost, asleep in their water graves.

It is difficult to give children a sense of security unless you have it yourself. If you have it, they catch it from you.