Even the most despicable person is still a human being..

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..

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….

I love having 30 shots of every scene..

Actors are different. Some actors play themselves very successfully, but I come from the theater. Having done Shakespeare, we sometimes did three or ….

I started acting long before I decided to pursue it. I started acting as an amateur when I was a kid, but I wanted to become a diplomat. It was self-….

When you work with someone you don't quite know, you have to figure the director out and you can come up with ideas that are counter-productive..

There is no overacting, only untrue acting..

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..

You have to make sure that you find projects that are not too similar and roles that are not too similar, so the challenges are new and you still lea….

It takes a long time to make me beautiful, but it goes fast to make me ugly..

People don't want to read subtitles..

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

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

All directors are control freaks and very obsessive. I get the feeling that directors as kids, they all have had a childhood with not too much contac….

The way I look at humanity, I don't think there's good guys or bad guys. We're all potentially bad and potentially good..

There was a Russian director named Elem Klimov, who did his films during the communist days. They were constantly struggling with the authorities and….

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

I've done so many sex scenes in my life and it's much easier to do a funny sex scene than a sex scene that is supposed to look like it feels..

One of the beauties of 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' is the very delicate and strange relationship between the two main characters..

I don't think that people in the world, in general, have too many chances..