Usually the script is much more funny than the film turns out to be, in my case. The script is almost like a comic book but when you start making it, for some reason the film gets very serious.

I don't think that any Icelandic filmmaker feels like he belongs to Icelandic filmmaking, because nobody really knows what it is.

I used to be a huge fan. "The Simpsons" taught me a lot about filmmaking. It imitates film, but it's drawn, so everything is super clear

They walked through the rainy dark like gaunt ghosts, and Garraty didn't like to look at them. They were the walking dead.

I never remember my dreams.

I give thanks to my Creator for this wonderful life where each of us has the opportunity to learn lessons we could not fully comprehend by any other means.

I listen to lots of music, especially Bach, opera (all periods), German lieder, chamber music, and rock, old and new. I can't listen to music while I write. It's too absorbing.

The hardest thing in the world to do is to think, and that is why people do so little of it.

Our losses have reached an intolerable level. The enemy air force played a decisive role in inflicting these high losses.

The most dominant cultural attributes maintained are the ones that are reinforced by your environment.

Fantasy hats give you the possibility to dream.

Late night writing is also good, too, but in New York, you've got neighbors. I try to be a good neighbor.

Who is also aware of the tremendous risk involved in faith - when he nevertheless makes the leap of faith - this [is] subjectivity ... at its height.