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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Stellan Skarsgard

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World

School

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I reflect over my actions; I don't dwell on them. "

" The biggest enemy of any actor is fear. "

" My performance is totally dependent on what the other actors are doing. "

" People don't want to read subtitles. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There is no overacting, only untrue acting. "

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

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

" 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 only respect you should have is the one you earn. "

" 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'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. "

" 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. "

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

Stellan Skarsgard

Bad

Guys

" 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 know how to cut meat, yeah. I know how to cook, basically. "

" 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. "

" 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

" We were working under very harsh conditions on 'Zero Kelvin.' We were up there in the Arctic, closer to the North Pole than to a hospital. Sometimes you had to sleep in small Arctic tents with guns to protect yourself from polar bears and stuff. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "