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" I think I was 13 years old when my father put in my hands 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold.' It was the first real adult book I ever read, and it opened a new world. "

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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. "

Stellan Skarsgard

Father

Family

Stress

" I am indeed a fan of John le Carre's novels. "

" 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. "

" I'm not always happy when Hollywood does remakes of films, but that's usually when they have a very, very, very good film, and they take away anything controversial from it and make flatter. "

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

" We have to know that the bad guys are not different from us in the world. "

Stellan Skarsgard

Bad

Guys

" I'm so full of useless information; I'm the kind of person that collects useless information. I like to know everything! "

" The first time I did a big American film, I was surprised by all the different financiers who came to the set and told the director what to do. "

" 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 Lars Von Trier calls me, I say yes without reading the script because often the script hasn't been written yet, and if Fincher called me again, I'd say yes without reading the script, too. "

" I've never thought of myself as a professional. I very rarely do something I don't enjoy. "

" I wanted to get the opportunity to do what actresses do: play the inside of a person. "

" Even if you're the President of the United States, you still act like a little child and think like a little child sometimes. Childish behavior is what I look for in all of my characters because that is what makes them human. "

" 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. "

" The biggest enemy of any actor is fear. "

" I said yes to 'Nymphomaniac' before it was written. "

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

" It's a disease we have that we think that everything is explainable. It's a merchandising idea because you can sell explanations and cures for everything, but it doesn't work like that. It's very hard to understand everything. "

" I think Dan Brown is a terribly bad writer, but he has cliff-hangers after every chapter which makes you continue reading. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Stellan Skarsgard

Performance

Home

" It's not in the tradition: not even the schoolkids have hot lunches in Norway. They bring a couple of sandwiches from home. "

" 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. "

" I really enjoy being part of the Marvel Universe. It's a cool bunch of people to work with, and they know what they're doing. "

" I started acting as an amateur when I was a kid, but I wanted to become a diplomat. It was self-centered and weird, but I had this idea of going out in the world and solving conflicts and making the world a better place. But I kept on acting, and eventually, I just dropped out of school and continued acting. "

" Some directors are interested in acting, and others are only interested in cranes and moving the camera. "

" In Europe, the director is the king: it's his vision. It's an auteur tradition. "

" All male roles are written in a way where you just hide what's going on inside you, and all female roles are written in a way where they expose everything. "