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The first time I did a big American film, I was surprised by all the different financiers who came to the set and told the director what to do.

In Europe, the director is the king: it's his vision. It's an auteur tradition.

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.

Kenneth Branagh is one of the funniest directors on the set. You laugh a lot. He's very skillful.

I am indeed a fan of John le Carre's novels.

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 really enjoy being part of the Marvel Universe. It's a cool bunch of people to work with, and they know what they're doing.

I do believe in humanism, and I believe that we should treat each other with respect and care and look after each other. All human beings should have an equal chance to survive in society, and inequality is a big problem in society.

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.

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.

The biggest enemy of any actor is fear.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

When we did 'Breaking the Waves,' he had a sign on the wall that said, 'Make mistakes.'

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.

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

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.

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.

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

There is no overacting, only untrue acting.

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.

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.

Even the most despicable person is still a human being.

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.

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

People don't want to read subtitles.

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.

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.

One of the beauties of 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' is the very delicate and strange relationship between the two main characters.

I love having 30 shots of every scene.

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.'

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

I think Dan Brown is a terribly bad writer, but he has cliff-hangers after every chapter which makes you continue reading.

I only did 'Thor' because it was Kenneth Branagh directing, but I enjoyed it much more than I thought I would.

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.

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