Zitat des Tages von Stellan Skarsgard:
A film doesn't exist until it meets its audience.
I am indeed a fan of John le Carre's novels.
I never help my kids and I never encourage them and I never give them any advice.
Norwegian kids, they grow up well educated in film. So they have a lot of good directors there.
I can say yes to some directors without even reading a script. But the first-time directors I've worked with, the scripts have not been perfect, but they had something that I liked.
I'm almost sometimes too subtle in my acting.
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 love having 30 shots of every scene.
We have to know that the bad guys are not different from us in the world.
I'm not a signing or dancing man.
One of the beauties of 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' is the very delicate and strange relationship between the two main characters.
Everybody thinks I'm so serious and the dark side is very accessible to me, so of course it's a challenge to do something funny.
If I ever lose a job because I've talked about being an atheist, then I don't want that job.
My parents were rather unconventional and did not accept rules unless they thought they were defendable. They were atheists when Sweden was a very Christian country.
How many big American films do you see where the heroine has no vanity whatsoever?
Most of my acting in general is about what's going on in the head, and the lines are just something that comes out.
Norway is a small country, about half the size of Sweden, but it has a very good film climate because they have municipal cinemas, so even in the smallest towns you have a cinema that shows art house films from all over the world.
The biggest enemy of any actor is fear.
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.
It's fun to play characters with a past, but it's also fun to play any role that is what I would call a 'pressure cooker' kind of character, where the lid is on, and it's left to simmer throughout the movie.
I've got a lot of weaknesses. One of them is that I often get scared and tense when I'm working - and fear is one of the big threats to any good performance, because it closes you down and makes it harder for you to produce life in front of the camera.
I think Dan Brown is a terribly bad writer, but he has cliff-hangers after every chapter which makes you continue reading.
People don't want to read subtitles.
There is no overacting, only untrue acting.
Even the most despicable person is still a human being.
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 to be allowed to express themselves. But he did one of the best war movies I've ever seen - it's called 'Come and See.'
I grew up in a family where you were allowed to say anything; you were allowed to show weakness... I have no problems talking about anything, basically. But at the same time, I know I'm different than a woman.
The distribution systems and the cinemas have adopted to the blockbusters, and they now get their main income from selling popcorn, and if you don't make a film that sells popcorn, it's very hard to get it out there.
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 contact with other kids. They constructed their own reality and they continue to do it. It's a funny breed, directors.
When you have kids, you see what's important.
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.
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.
It takes a long time to make me beautiful, but it goes fast to make me ugly.
I wanted to get the opportunity to do what actresses do: play the inside of a person.
I've worked with Lars von Trier on many films, and there's always a female character that's like an open wound - everything just pours out of this person.