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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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" 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. "

Stellan Skarsgard

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" How many big American films do you see where the heroine has no vanity whatsoever? "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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 don't feel ashamed or humiliated when I am naked, but I definitely feel it when I am playing games. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Stellan Skarsgard

Bad

Guys

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" People don't want to read subtitles. "

" I love having 30 shots of every scene. "

" 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 wanted to be a man who travelled the world to make peace. I didn't realise that most diplomats are megaphones for their governments. "

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

" 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. "

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