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" 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
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" Maybe there is something specifically Scandinavian that comes out of the long, dark winters - you have to learn to laugh at misery, in a way. "
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" 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. "
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" I love having 30 shots of every scene. "
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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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" From my second son Gustav, I bought one of his complaints for 200 kroner. He was complaining that he was a middle child - he wasn't the beloved first child, and he wasn't the cute little youngest child. So I said, can I use that same wording in a film? And he said yeah. So I bought it from him. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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" One of the beauties of 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' is the very delicate and strange relationship between the two main characters. "
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" 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. "
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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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" I did a Norwegian film called 'Insomnia' that was remade and that was a good remake by a good director, so I'm honoured. "
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" My father used to stress that he valued us all as individuals, but that no one in the world was worth more or less than anyone else. This was a good principle to establish in a large family. "
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" There is no overacting, only untrue acting. "
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" 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. "
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Preparation
" 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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" 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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" It takes a long time to make me beautiful, but it goes fast to make me ugly. "
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Long
Fast
" Casting a film, you can have the greatest actors in a film and it doesn't work. It's a combination of all of the elements. "
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Casting
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Greatest
" I've never thought of myself as a professional. I very rarely do something I don't enjoy. "
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" 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. "
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" The only respect you should have is the one you earn. "
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" 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. "
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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 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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" I know how to cut meat, yeah. I know how to cook, basically. "
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" 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. "
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" I can say yes to some directors without even reading a script. But the first-time directors I've worked with, the scripts have not been perfect, but they had something that I liked. "
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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 said yes to 'Nymphomaniac' before it was written. "
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" 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. "
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