My father is Swedish and my mother is French.

Everyone wants to work in America. Maybe not blockbusters or Terminator, but to have the choice.

I want to travel. Maybe I'll end up living in Norway, making cakes.

I like characters who have strong facades and then have secrets. They have cracks.

I am a dreamer. Seriously, I'm living on another planet.

I have my own style and don't really follow fashion, but I like leggings. They're easy to wear and can go with anything.

Don't be ashamed of who you are, embrace who you are.

I need to fall in love with someone. Sorry - I mean fall in love with something. I need to wake myself up.

I'm not really involved with politics... I'm living in my cocoon with my classical music around.

I don't believe in awards. It's very good for the ego, I suppose.

I have Algerian, Turkish, Swedish, Spanish blood: I feel like a citizen of the world. Life and cinema don't have borders.

A Blessing is a kind of 'Hope'.

What we think of as Halloween is really the product of media barons, city mayors, and candy-makers. You know, before the 1920s, Halloween was really a terrible, terrible night.

I'm going to disappear again.

All things have their place, knew wee how to place them.

May your rice never burn,' is the New Year's greeting of the Chinese. 'May it never be gummy,' is ours.

We owe it to our kids to inform them and train them how to think, not what to think.

The director is the only person who knows what the film is about.

I basically wrote the code and the specs and documentation for how the client and server talked to each other.

We have our own reasons for what's motivating us right now.

I always believe that my films should give some hope to the man who comes to watch them for those three hours. If he goes home on an optimistic note, I would feel satisfied at having done my duty.