My key interest in choosing scripts is character-driven stories, because there are so many stories that sacrifice character for plot.

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.

But you can't stay with people because of guilt. Or because they can drive a speedboat.

Each angel that God created was in himself a masterpiece. Each one possessed his own degree of intelligence and his own beauty.

I won't sit here and say I've never had a pimple, but I try to have a really great diet, you know, lots of vegetables and fish. And I think stress plays a huge part too.

Each man is for his lord, do not give chase.

I've been a vegetarian since I was 19.

A sketch will not serve more than one state of mind & will not serve to drink at again & again — in a sketch there is nothing but the one state of mind — that which you were in at the time.

You have to be narcissistic to be an artist. You have to think you are the centre of the whole thing otherwise why do you create? The only thing is to recognise it, and then you make the best of it.

A great man scarcely knows how he dines, how he dresses; but without railing or precision, his living is natural and poetic.

The House is in the house" Chapter 38

Someone needs to explain to me why wanting clean drinking water makes you an activist, and why proposing to destroy water with chemical warfare doesnt make a corporation a terrorist.