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

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.

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.

I have the charisma of the chipmunk. I never have thought I was smart. I thought the people I dealt with were dumb.

That must be what power does to a man: erases what he knows and makes him remember only what services him at the moment.

Did you ever hear the Oriental proverb, "The dogs bark but the caravan passes on"? Let them bark, Scarlett. I fear nothing will stop your caravan.

Let the current of your being set towards God, then your life will be filled and calmed by one master-passion which unites and stills the soul.

I could claim any number of high-flown reasons for writing, just as you can explain certain dogs behavior... But maybe, it’s that they’re dog, and that’s what dogs do.

The truly and deliberately evil men are a very small minority; it is the appeaser who unleashes them on mankind.

As a sports fan, the Los Angeles Kings winning the Stanley Cup makes me feel very alive.

I split my time between Santa Barbara and Aspen. I live on a pretty fast horse.

Elegance is not an outer quality, but a part of the soul that is visible to others.