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" People don't want to read subtitles. "
Stellan Skarsgard
People
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" 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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" The biggest enemy of any actor is fear. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Most of my acting in general is about what's going on in the head, and the lines are just something that comes out. "
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" I've been offered a lot of police series, but I'm very good at staying away from them. They're usually based on such a boring formula. "
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" The only respect you should have is the one you earn. "
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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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" 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. "
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" There was a Russian director named Elem Klimov, who did his films during the communist days. They were constantly struggling with the authorities and to be allowed to express themselves. But he did one of the best war movies I've ever seen - it's called 'Come and See.' "
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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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" 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 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. "
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" Some directors are interested in acting, and others are only interested in cranes and moving the camera. "
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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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" 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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" 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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