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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 think I was 13 years old when my father put in my hands 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold.' It was the first real adult book I ever read, and it opened a new world. "

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

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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. "

" I go where I think I can enjoy myself. Sometimes it's on a big movie, and sometimes it's even on a silly movie. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I know how to cut meat, yeah. I know how to cook, basically. "

" 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. "

" Lars von Trier is a very good storyteller. He's like an H. C. Andersen for adults. "

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

" 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. "

" Rupert Murdoch is in bed with Cameron. Of course they want to kill the BBC... anybody who is in the way. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Acting is such a strange, vague profession, but my kids know it's hard labour. "

" I wanted to be a man who travelled the world to make peace. I didn't realise that most diplomats are megaphones for their governments. "

" 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. "

" All male roles are written in a way where you just hide what's going on inside you, and all female roles are written in a way where they expose everything. "

" People don't want to read subtitles. "

" 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. "

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