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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.' "

Stellan Skarsgard

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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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" The biggest enemy of any actor is fear. "

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

" Norwegian kids, they grow up well educated in film. So they have a lot of good directors there. "

" 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. "

" 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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" 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. "

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

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

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

" I'm so full of useless information; I'm the kind of person that collects useless information. I like to know everything! "

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

" 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. "

" 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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Performance

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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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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