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" I love having 30 shots of every scene. "
Stellan Skarsgard
Scene
Having
Love
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" Lars von Trier is a very good storyteller. He's like an H. C. Andersen for adults. "
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" 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. "
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" In Europe, the director is the king: it's his vision. It's an auteur tradition. "
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" My father used to stress that he valued us all as individuals, but that no one in the world was worth more or less than anyone else. This was a good principle to establish in a large family. "
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" Some actors are what I call more like mirror actors, which means that they do a performance at home in front of the mirror, and then they go deliver it. I'm not that type. "
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" We have to know that the bad guys are not different from us in the world. "
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" Kenneth Branagh is one of the funniest directors on the set. You laugh a lot. He's very skillful. "
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" The biggest enemy of any actor is fear. "
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" I reflect over my actions; I don't dwell on them. "
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" It's not in the tradition: not even the schoolkids have hot lunches in Norway. They bring a couple of sandwiches from home. "
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" It's good to pay high taxes - you have free schools, free universities. It's a much more decent society than those where everybody pays their own way, and some people don't get anything. "
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" Some directors are interested in acting, and others are only interested in cranes and moving the camera. "
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Acting
" 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. "
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" I said yes to 'Nymphomaniac' before it was written. "
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Written
Said
Before
" The difference between an experienced director and a new director is not as big as the difference between individual directors, the temperament they have, and the things they're interested in. "
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Temperament
Difference
New
" Any society that starts forbidding certain words or expressions is a society you should be wary about, whether it's the KGB or social consensus that enforces it. "
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Words
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" The only respect you should have is the one you earn. "
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Earn
You
Should
" I don't feel ashamed or humiliated when I am naked, but I definitely feel it when I am playing games. "
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Feel
Playing Games
Naked
" The Sermon on the Mount is a very nice piece about being good, but most of the Bible is a very revengeful, childish, brutal God. "
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Most
Good
God
" Of course, working with Halle Berry is fantastic. Every day, you're looking at a performance that you would be prepared to pay to watch. She's truly great and truthful, and it's a joy. "
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Day
Joy
" I've made six films for Disney, and they have a clause in their contracts called the morality clause that I've always refused to sign. "
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" 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. "
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Time
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" Most of my acting in general is about what's going on in the head, and the lines are just something that comes out. "
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" 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. "
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" How many big American films do you see where the heroine has no vanity whatsoever? "
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" From my second son Gustav, I bought one of his complaints for 200 kroner. He was complaining that he was a middle child - he wasn't the beloved first child, and he wasn't the cute little youngest child. So I said, can I use that same wording in a film? And he said yeah. So I bought it from him. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I am indeed a fan of John le Carre's novels. "
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John
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