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" 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. "

Stellan Skarsgard

You

Film

Hard

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New Things

Preparation

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

" 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. "

" It takes a long time to make me beautiful, but it goes fast to make me ugly. "

" I don't know if I am a good cook, but I am a dedicated cook. "

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I Am

Cook

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

" 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. "

" I never help my kids and I never encourage them and I never give them any advice. "

" Any society that starts forbidding certain words or expressions is a society you should be wary about, whether it's the KGB or social consensus that enforces it. "

" I've never thought of myself as a professional. I very rarely do something I don't enjoy. "

" 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

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

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" I love having 30 shots of every scene. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There is no overacting, only untrue acting. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "