Weirdly enough, I don't like to pretend. I try to use things in me, and translate them into the situation and the characters, so it always needs to run through my own veins.

I was a punk rocker when I was a teenager. I wanted to look like Nancy Spungen. I had dyed blonde hair and lots of piercings.

I'm interested in people's darker side, the ones that aren't easy and well balanced. The cracks.

If I don't see myself as a victim, then I'm not a victim.

My husband, when I was filming the Millennium movies, he asked me, 'How far are you going and when are you coming back?'

I can't see any value in being a celebrity, famous for being famous.

I'd much rather work with people that are tricky and difficult than people that just say yes to everything.

For me, artists and people that are passionate are fighting for what they believe in and what they want, and that's always appealing. I find that really interesting.

I think most gypsies all over the world are used to being not really welcome and always on the run, expecting people to not like them and to be critical.

In Sweden everybody has this perfect surface. Everyones very polite and controls their feelings.

I don't have this crazy dream about going to Hollywood, because I really love to watch movies and do movies that are complicated, and I want more strange things and complicated things.

But then life is never neat, it is made up of doors and trapdoors. You move down baroque corridors, and even when you think you know which door to open, you still need to have the courage to choose.

The best meals are those prepared by loving hands.

No past is dead for us but only sleeping love.

Traces that live within us often lead us to our stories

You must understand the texture of your hair before you choose a style.

Better to constantly check in than ride proud on your high horse.

I don't believe ever in shared office spaces. Peter talks a little bit about this, every good startup is a cult. It's very hard to create a cult if you're sharing space with people.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men, And falsehood, while I lived, was far from mine.

Part of my heritage being Korean, it's going to be interesting going to Korea and answering these questions dealing with North and South Korea.