TV is a different animal these days. You can bring together really smart writing and directing, in-depth character development and really meaty political and emotional stories.

I'm definitely more attracted to chaos than to order. The point is, I find the female roles out there very cliché. If we are limited to being only lovers or mothers, we are limiting ourselves.

As an artist you actually do have to make a choice to be an outsider. If you're an outsider you have the freedom to say what people on the inside don't dare to say.

I'm definitely more attracted to chaos than to order.

I don't think I can remember a moment in my life where people didn't discuss politics. People discuss politics at the table.

We have a certain warped sense of humor in Scandinavia, and that is what comes across in the choices in a lot of our movies.

I will always find something that I want to try and become better at. I always love to spend more time with my friends, more time with my family, my extended family. I always want to read more books.

A role can go from being a babe to anything, as long as it's something that makes me curious.

I say no to a lot of things that just don't fit my life. I involve my kids in what I'm struggling with so they don't compete with it.

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

My health is only just good enough for myself alone, not good enough for marriage, let alone fatherhood. Yet when I read your letter, I feel I could overlook even what cannot possibly be overlooked.

I'm into all that sappy stuff - a surprise picnic, nice dinner, or traveling. I'm kind of an old romantic.

In middle school I wrote a paper on Hemingway and none of the sentences had more than five words.

You cant go on winning all the time.

New Yorkers are mostly interested in New York - in case you haven't noticed.

He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.

It's better to not be afraid of things and not avoid things.

I smoke a blunt once every blue moon. But hey, the moon looks kinda blue tonight.

But I have a gut feeling on this and it’s not the oh-look-it’s-a-bright-shiny-world kind. (Tate)