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"Cinema has become a global economy, totally international."
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"Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out."
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"Cinema in India is like brushing your teeth in the morning. You can't escape it."
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"Well the least favourite question is the one that one's asked particularly about in Japan is what's the difference between theatre and cinema and I think, well, that's about eighty bucks."
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"On the one hand, young theatre directors were coming to television theatre, because they wanted to get closer to the cinema, despite having studied and worked for the theatre."
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"I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with language."
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"There's still a 1950s view of cinema, that there's one audience and they all want to see the same thing."
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"I see horror as part of legitimate film. I don't see it as an independent genre that has nothing to do with the rest of cinema."
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"The theatre fulfills, whereas the cinema is empty."
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"Although it is a fantasy film, it's as real as it can be. You have to imagine that an audience will buy their ticket to a cinema and get on a first-class flight and journey to Middle Earth."
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"If I'm in theatre, cinema doesn't even cross my mind. Similarly when I'm making a film, theatre doesn't cross my mind."
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"I love mixing amateurs and professionals."
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"A film that is bleached tends to have a more realistic quality."
Quality
"Many of the comedies I had made in Sweden were slightly based on semi-autobiographical experiences, so adapting novels was a very different experience."
Experience
"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."
Love
"But I notice that there is a lack of darkness in my movies and I don't know where that comes from."
Movies
"I am always more interested in performance and character depiction, and my direction says as much."
Character
"It was important on The Shipping News to have my house far enough away from each location so I had this time in the morning to think about my shots and still remain open to surprises once I got to the set."
Time
"I always try to preserve my cinematographic style, even while I work in the US. I wish to always be European."
Work
"My key interest in choosing scripts is character-driven stories, because there are so many stories that sacrifice character for plot."
Sacrifice
"But now I wish I could back to Stockholm to make international films there."
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