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

It's really nice to go down to an extremely low-budget movie, but that is very daring and courageous and try something different, where the roles usu….

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

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 lit….

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

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….

There is no overacting, only untrue acting..

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

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

People don't want to read subtitles..

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

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..

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..

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

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-….

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….

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..

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

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

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..

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..