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" What is important, I think, is to reach as many people as you can and do it as well as you can. Reach them and inspire them or amuse them, or maybe in some odd moments help them to discover something they hadn't thought of before. "

Max von Sydow

Inspire

Moments

People

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Max von Sydow

Only

Role

" When I know what the character I'm supposed to play wants in general terms, and when I know what did the other characters want to do, that's when all these wills collide and the emotions show up. "

" It was great to watch Orson Welles, not only as an actor but as a director. "

" Mr. Bergman had a great imagination and saw the possibilities within every one of his actors, and he gave us great challenges. It was very inspiring. "

" In a silent film, you speak but the audience does not hear you. "

" No doubt, the most important thing in my career was my time with Mr. Bergman, with whom I worked in so many films and also in so many stage productions, so it was a continuous working relationship and also a friendship, of course, that lasted for so many years. "

" Most screenplays I receive are boring, and some are straight-out bad. "

" New York is a fascinating city. I think it's a very inspiring city, but it's overpowering when you get older. It tires me now. But it's wonderful for young people - very inspiring and full of surprises and full of ideas. "

" Unfortunately, not all stories end positively. "

" Film acting, if you don't play the lead, you come, and you do your scenes in a few days, and you act with a couple of colleagues. All the rest of the actors you never see, and you don't even meet many of them. And you don't know what will happen with what you've done. Maybe it will be in the film, maybe it will not. "

" The more I had to act like a saint, the more I felt like being a sinner. "

" Human beings are human beings whether they speak or not. "

" Spielberg knows his craft so well, he can also improvise, and that is a lot of fun. "

Max von Sydow

Fun

Improvise

" France is, for me, the country of happiness. "

" Hiroshima has become a metaphor not just for nuclear war but for war and destruction and violence toward civilians. It's not just the idea we should not use nuclear arms. We should not start another war because it's madness. "

" I'm an actor; I'm not a director. "

Max von Sydow

Actor

Director

" In a theater, the part is mine and I can control it as I want to. In the movies, I don't have direct contact, and I am fighting technical machinery. "

" I think it's good that we're sometimes reminded of important events in history. "

" I find it very hard to take myself seriously. "

" In this country, you have movie actors and theatre actors and television actors. "

" The idea of working with Steven Spielberg was very attractive. He's such a master. He knows the language of the camera and of filmmaking, which gives him a great freedom. "

" I'm getting too old to play some parts, but I'm still greedy. "

" Bergman has a very special eye for people. His background taught him to listen and to feel. "

" It often disturbs me, when I see a film set in a historical time, that the people are too modern. "

Max von Sydow

People

Time

" Sometimes you remember more about the location where you shot the film than the film itself. "

" The most difficult part of playing Christ was that I had to keep up the image around the clock. As soon as the picture finished, I returned home to Sweden and tried to find my old self. It took six months to get back to normal. "

" I began imagining scenes in public which some drunk would come up to me and slap me in the face. Nothing like that ever happened, but I often wonder if I would have turned the other cheek. "