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" Maybe there is something specifically Scandinavian that comes out of the long, dark winters - you have to learn to laugh at misery, in a way. "
Stellan Skarsgard
You
Learn
Laugh
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" I am indeed a fan of John le Carre's novels. "
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" I do believe in humanism, and I believe that we should treat each other with respect and care and look after each other. All human beings should have an equal chance to survive in society, and inequality is a big problem in society. "
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" I said yes to 'Nymphomaniac' before it was written. "
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" 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. "
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" 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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" How many big American films do you see where the heroine has no vanity whatsoever? "
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" I'm so full of useless information; I'm the kind of person that collects useless information. I like to know everything! "
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" 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. "
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" I never help my kids and I never encourage them and I never give them any advice. "
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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. "
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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 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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" 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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" I wanted to be a man who travelled the world to make peace. I didn't realise that most diplomats are megaphones for their governments. "
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Peace
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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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" 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. "
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Yes
Say
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" 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. "
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School
Play
Reach
" Norwegian kids, they grow up well educated in film. So they have a lot of good directors there. "
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Grow
Film
" 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. "
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Finding
You
Process
" 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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Sandwiches
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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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" When we did 'Breaking the Waves,' he had a sign on the wall that said, 'Make mistakes.' "
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" 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. "
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" 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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" Even the most despicable person is still a human being. "
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Human
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" 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. "
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Bad
Good
" People don't want to read subtitles. "
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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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" We have to know that the bad guys are not different from us in the world. "
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Guys
Us
" There is no overacting, only untrue acting. "
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