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

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.

She has been to the compound before. She remembered this hallway. She knows about the initiation process. My mother was Dauntless.

A plan is not a routine that a man does every day

only the eye that sees can differentiate a flower from leaves

Science and the many benefits that science has produced have played a crucial part in our history and produced vast improvements to human welfare.

Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.

Schools are not about enabling children to have a living but about children being able to have a life.

Direct cinema is about simulating a reality in which you're not having the overwhelming influence that you really are having.

I tried to do the commercial thing. But I don't want to keep shoving Twinkies down everyone's throat. People are hungry for something of more substance.

Not he who has little, but he whose wishes more, is poor.

Punk, I see you as a hypocritical, manipulative waste of skin.