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" ABBA: The Movie; I got a lot of grief for working on that. "
Movie
Got
Working
" A film that is bleached tends to have a more realistic quality. "
Film
More
Quality
" But I notice that there is a lack of darkness in my movies and I don't know where that comes from. "
Lack
Know
Darkness
" But now I wish I could back to Stockholm to make international films there. "
Now
Back
International
" Cinema has become a global economy, totally international. "
Cinema
Economy
Totally
" I always need a couple of highlights to really spark the passion for a project. "
Always
Passion
Project
" I always try to preserve my cinematographic style, even while I work in the US. I wish to always be European. "
Wish
Always
Work
" I am always more interested in performance and character depiction, and my direction says as much. "
Performance
I Am
Character
" I can't go back and label myself as an outcast because I was a pretty well-adjusted kid, but I can certainly relate to the feeling of being an outsider. "
Feeling
Go
Kid
" I discovered the 7th art at home when I was kid, through Charlie Chaplin's movies and those of my father who shot documentaries. He was my biggest influence. So I took his camera and started shooting. "
Home
Father
Camera
" I feel the need to work with my wife, Lena Olin, again. "
Work
Again
Feel
" I got to work with my wife, Lena Olin, for the first time, which was great. I thought it might be difficult in some way to talk to one's wife in a different way but it was so not forced. "
Wife
Time
Great
" I imagined that it might be awkward to talk to your wife about her performance, so going into it I was a little nervous. But doing it was actually a wonderfully inspiring experience. "
Doing
Wife
Performance
" I love improvising. "
Improvising
I Love
Love
" I love involving actors at all levels - and they have to know that I want to hear their contributions, with dialogue, with story suggestions, with script changes, whatever. "
Changes
Know
Hear
" I love mixing amateurs and professionals. "
Professionals
I Love
Love
" I made all their videos, apart from the last two, so if you ever see an Abba video on TV then it's my stuff. "
Last
See
Stuff
" I'm on this diet where you're supposed to eat only fish and meat. "
Diet
You
Only
" I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels. "
Ideas
Contribute
Want
" I think I avoid stepping into sentimentality by trying to be as truthful as possible with performances. "
Trying
Truthful
Avoid
" It's just, for me, the natural standard: a woman should be able to decide over her own body. "
Natural
Woman
Own
" It was important on The Shipping News to have my house far enough away from each location so I had this time in the morning to think about my shots and still remain open to surprises once I got to the set. "
Enough
Time
Morning
" I was always attracted by the European way of life, but I am deeply Swedish. "
Am
Always
Attracted
" Kevin, as the whole cast is, just wonderful people and great people, and people who are attracted to this kind of material and accepting the idea of going to Newfoundland and knowing the kind of lack of amenities. "
People
Wonderful
Great
" Many of the comedies I had made in Sweden were slightly based on semi-autobiographical experiences, so adapting novels was a very different experience. "
Experience
Different
Experiences
" My father was an amateur filmmaker who shot 8mm color documentaries. "
Father
Filmmaker
Who
" My father would tell anyone who would listen that this dentist thing he was doing was not his passion; cinematography was. "
Doing
Dentist
Listen
" My films do have characters who have trouble escaping the world around them. "
Who
Around
World
" My key interest in choosing scripts is character-driven stories, because there are so many stories that sacrifice character for plot. "
Character
Stories
Plot
" To see my wife getting inspired from my notes and thoughts, going in the direction I wanted, and have her surprise me with wonderful choices was a real treat. "
Choices
See
Thoughts
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