I often use humor as a tool in my writing, and sometimes that works and sometimes it sits alone just as a funny line.

In Sweden, we have what is called 'The Finnish Disease.' It consists of not talking much, or at all.

In life, new thoughts and ideas always clash with the old world order and habits.

The longer I've been a director, the less I have to 'direct.'

When I was younger, I didn't like shooting part, because I was more of a writer and didn't like being the center of it all.

Love can become overused.

I consider myself 'local' in Sweden.

God is always present. We’re the ones who show up.

True character is revealed in the choices a human being makes under pressure - the greater the pressure, the deeper the revelation, the truer the choice to the character's essential nature.

A good umpire is the umpire you don't even notice

I don't look like a desert person because I stay indoors most of the day and fool around at night. That's what the desert animals do - they don't have a tan either.

We must not forget that it wasn't the Jews that put him on the cross, and it wasn't the Romans. It was my sins, it was your sins, the sins of this world.

The reality is I'm not a 'get knocked down and come back harder' kind of guy.

I think it's really the job of the composer, the artist, the painter, the writer to present people with options. I'm just really reflecting the thoughts and actions around me.

No cowboys for Canada. Canada got Mounties instead - Dudley Do-Right, not John Wayne. It's a mind-set of "Here I come to save the day" versus "Yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker.

Too much of this book knowledge just leads to doubts and confusion. You get too many doubts asking 'what is this?' and 'what is that?', and you waste a lot of time in this conflict.