I love involving actors at all levels - and they have to know that I want to hear their contributions, with dialogue, with story suggestions, with script changes, whatever.

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.

Make sure your Belief system leaves room for you to Be Life!

A man who called everyone a damn fool is like a man who damns the weather. He only shows that he is not adapted to his environment, not that the environment is wrong.

Few people repent at leisure after taking the high road.

After all, the seeds of depression cannot take root in a grateful heart.

Do I look like I know how to twerk? I'm a small blonde boy.

If I ever have any back-up dancers, I want the penguins from Madagascar.

Music ministers to human welfare more than any other art.

You get pseudo-order when you seek order; you only get a measure of order and control when you embrace randomness.

Climate change policies cannot be the frosting on the cake of development; they must be baked into the recipe of growth and social development.

Let's take everything just as it is.