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

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.

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.

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

The journey of the sun and moon is predictable, but yours is your ultimate art.

Train your Children with Patience, Correct them in Love, Don't Discipline them out of hatred

Love is a wound, " the assassin said. " Neither life nor death.

God meets daily needs daily. Not weekly or annually. He will give you what you need when it is needed.

Being fired has some of the advantages of dying without its supreme disadvantages. People say extra-nice things about you, and you get to hear them.

For me, beauty is a physical sensation, something we feel with our whole body. It is not the result of judgement. We do not arrive at it by way of rules. We either feel beauty or we don't.

Doo never actually made moonshine, but he hauled about an ocean of it.

Always find a time to sit on a humid autumn bench to feed the poor birds or to think the dying leaves!

There was the torture of sermons, and that not a slight one, for I was very fond of them.

The decent method you follow is better than the perfect method you quit.