But I notice that there is a lack of darkness in my movies and I don't know where that comes from.

But now I wish I could back to Stockholm to make international films there.

I am always more interested in performance and character depiction, and my direction says as much.

I'm on this diet where you're supposed to eat only fish and meat.

My father would tell anyone who would listen that this dentist thing he was doing was not his passion; cinematography was.

Cinema has become a global economy, totally international.

I was always attracted by the European way of life, but I am deeply Swedish.

My father was an amateur filmmaker who shot 8mm color documentaries.

I imagined that it might be awkward to talk to your wife about her performance, so going into it I was a little nervous. But doing it was actually a wonderfully inspiring experience.

I love mixing amateurs and professionals.

I can't go back and label myself as an outcast because I was a pretty well-adjusted kid, but I can certainly relate to the feeling of being an outsider.

Tis all a Checkerboard of Nights and Days Where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates, and stays, And one by one back in the Closet lays.

The sacredness of existence is spiritual.

It's often the material things that provide the essence of memory.

Compassion is happiness.

Movies with interfering in-laws and kids are often presented as comic, the ridicule bringing welcome relief to beleaguered married folks suffering offscreen at the hands of relatives.

When I have learned to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now.

The important thing about groupthink is that it works not so much by censoring dissent as by making dissent seem somehow improbable.

Sometimes I didn't want to skate. My dad would push me so hard to get better.

Skepticism, riddling the faith of yesterday, prepared the way for the faith of tomorrow.

I'm lucky that I have such a hands on husband.