I consider myself a storyteller, not really even an actor. I consider myself a storyteller.

Also, in my acting, I feel very much like a storyteller, exploring the flaws of the characters that I interpret. I look for the imperfections, and I love a character that is just so flawed.

I seem to play a lot of losers.

Sometimes film is just the family business. Some families are generations of carpenters or farmers, or they make clothes, or they're all lawyers. I'm in the family business.

There's a point where art is not subjective, and my example for that is Picasso. If you don't like Picasso, that's your problem.

In a way, all actors are gypsies, or much like a traveling circus.

I resisted the film business as long as I could, because of the big circus act and the amount of money that it costs to make films - I saw my father suffer through that.

I loved painting and drawing for many reasons. One of them was that all it really required was me, a pencil and a pad. It was something I was passionate about, and still am.

When I was really young, I shot a lot with my Super 8.

The whole thing of doing a TV series, I find it very daunting not knowing where the story's going.

I started as a director and just fell upon acting.

I understood it in my bones. Longing made the music bigger.

He that useth his reason doth acknowledge God.

Rugby is a nonsense, but a very serious nonsense.

I can accept the theory of relativity as little as I can accept the existence of atoms and other such dogmas.

Maybe it’s that I find it hard to forgive the follies and vices of others, or their offenses against me. My good opinion, once lost, is lost forever.

I remember being very, very aware of gender when I was really young. Not necessarily in a bad way. Maybe it's a little bit because I'm Norwegian and how I've been brought up.

That's what's wrong with the people in this world; they believe they can do well by just getting by when they need to aim for the highest.

If you hate to lose, you do whatever you need to do to make sure you're business is successful.

Give young people a chance, our generation may just surprise you.

I had been rejected, but I was still in love.