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

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.

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.

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.

Maybe all that we are is what people expect us to be.

Soul mates don’t finally meet somewhere at a certain place at a certain time, they’re in each other, all along.

Stigma against mental illness is a scourge with many faces, and the medical community wears a number of those faces.

Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers when there was no Velcro.

Being human is the most terrible loneliness in the universe.

Being black, I'm involved in the reparations movement. It's focused toward the African-American audience. We could begin to heal.

Letters should be easy and natural, and convey to the persons to whom we send them just what we should say to the persons if we were with them.

You can wipe off that grin, I know where you've been, it's all been a pack of lies.

All of humanity is in peril of extinction if each one of us does not dare, now and henceforth, always to tell only the truth, and all the truth, and to do so promptly - right now.

I was taught from a young age that as a teacher, especially a male, you are to never be alone with a female, or even a male student.