Norwegian kids, they grow up well educated in film. So they have a lot of good directors there.

I'm in Stockholm in my office. I just got here after seeing my eighth child on an ultrasound, so I'm in a good mood. It's beautiful: an energetic little skeleton.

There is no overacting, only untrue acting.

Unfortunately, the way the world is constructed, a lot of people have no chance, from day one.

I played a heap of snow in a school play. I was under a sheet, and crawled out when spring came. I often say I'll never reach the same artistic level again.

I treat everyone as equals. I can't work if I'm not having fun, and I can't have fun if not everyone is happy.

if a real God were actually so vain as to constantly demand worship, then he would not be worth it.

We don't live. We're miming in the choir.

Casting a film, you can have the greatest actors in a film and it doesn't work. It's a combination of all of the elements.

Theres nothing more reassuring than a world thats crazier than you are.

Even the most despicable person is still a human being.

Then they’re always trying to sell you something. Everything is based on forcing people to buy. If you can’t buy what they’re selling, you’re a zero in the system.

See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

What played to what had been a relative weakness for us-this was exploding overseas as well, and we had to scramble to mount some reach and get into places and be competitive on the ground.

My imaginary friends have become my imaginary children.

See that you feel the truths that you speak.

The design process is about designing and prototyping and making. When you separate those, I think the final result suffers.

I have read many books, but the Bible reads me.

The smarter you are, the more reasons you have to be miserable.

Work is my joy... Work is my therapy, I don't know anybody who loves work as much as I do.

I do not believe in the God of the theologians; but that there is a Supreme Intelligence I do not doubt.