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" Rupert Murdoch is in bed with Cameron. Of course they want to kill the BBC... anybody who is in the way. "
Stellan Skarsgard
Bed
Who
Way
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" People don't want to read subtitles. "
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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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Never
Kids
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" Acting is such a strange, vague profession, but my kids know it's hard labour. "
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Hard
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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
" My performance is totally dependent on what the other actors are doing. "
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Doing
Performance
Other
" When we did 'Breaking the Waves,' he had a sign on the wall that said, 'Make mistakes.' "
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Breaking
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" Even the most despicable person is still a human being. "
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Human
Most
" Some directors are interested in acting, and others are only interested in cranes and moving the camera. "
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Camera
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" 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. "
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Enjoy
Know
" 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. "
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Time
Weakness
Family
" 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. "
Stellan Skarsgard
Finding
You
Process
" Norwegian kids, they grow up well educated in film. So they have a lot of good directors there. "
Stellan Skarsgard
Educated
Grow
Film
" 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. "
Stellan Skarsgard
Without
Yes
Say
" 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. "
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You
Film
Hard
" The only respect you should have is the one you earn. "
Stellan Skarsgard
Earn
You
Should
" 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. "
Stellan Skarsgard
Life
You
Choice
" I don't know if I am a good cook, but I am a dedicated cook. "
Stellan Skarsgard
Am
I Am
Cook
" 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. "
Stellan Skarsgard
Been
Police
Lot
" 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. "
Stellan Skarsgard
Most
Good
God
" 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. "
Stellan Skarsgard
Need
Good
Director
" 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. "
Stellan Skarsgard
Good Director
Yes
Director
" 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. "
Stellan Skarsgard
Way
Bad
Good
" 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. "
Stellan Skarsgard
Society
You
People
" There is no overacting, only untrue acting. "
Stellan Skarsgard
Only
Acting
Untrue
" 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
Weird
World
School
" 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
Control
Reality
Own
" 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. "
Stellan Skarsgard
Director
Time
First
" With Fincher, you can take chances and try things. And what happens is that any pretension and preparation you've done, all the square, intellectual work, you can't keep that up for 40 takes. It breaks down, and new things start popping up. This, for me, is the most exciting thing about film-making. "
Stellan Skarsgard
New Things
Me
Preparation
" 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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Person
Information
Kind
" I am indeed a fan of John le Carre's novels. "
Stellan Skarsgard
Novels
John
Indeed