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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Stellan Skarsgard

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

" 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. "

" 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

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Home

" Even with limited success as an actor, you usually have a more interesting life than in many other professions, so it's not an unreasonable choice. "

" 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. "

" Very often, it's the director that I'm attracted to. If it's a really good director, I don't even have to read the script to say yes. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I only did 'Thor' because it was Kenneth Branagh directing, but I enjoyed it much more than I thought I would. "

" 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. "

" When you have kids, you see what's important. "

" You always have to figure out what the director is good at before you work with them; then you can fill in if need be. "

" Shooting should not be about delivering something I've prepared; it should be a live process of finding things out. When things happen that you haven't planned, that's when the film comes alive. "

" I go where I think I can enjoy myself. Sometimes it's on a big movie, and sometimes it's even on a silly movie. "

" I did a Norwegian film called 'Insomnia' that was remade and that was a good remake by a good director, so I'm honoured. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I was the eldest of five children, and although I never saw myself as any kind of leader, as the eldest, like it or not, you have some power inherent in that position. "

" Kenneth Branagh is one of the funniest directors on the set. You laugh a lot. He's very skillful. "

Stellan Skarsgard

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" Even the most despicable person is still a human being. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "