My father would tell anyone who would listen that this dentist thing he was doing was not his passion; cinematography was.

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.

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.

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.

There are as many kinds of love as there are flowers and bugs put together but men and women and their needs are all the same.

To Kalist, Baumauer’s just a timber bridge in need of a good hot fire.

Just out of high school, you didn't realize you were creating drama for the sake of drama.

Any supreme insight is a metaphor.

Despair makes victims sometimes victors.

Most of America don't even listen to music probably. They just go raccoon hunting or something.

If I was working hard, she bled into my personality. I became more cynical.

Music is fulfilling. The next day you feel better. Drugs, the next day you feel terrible -- unless you have more drugs.

Sisters in Crime now has more than 4,000 members worldwide.

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.