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"I think I avoid stepping into sentimentality by trying to be as truthful as possible with performances."
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"My approach to acting is that I am totally intuitive. I read the script and I get it. If I don't get it, I can't do it."
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"There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane."
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"Acting is happy agony."
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"Earlier, I used to charge territories instead of my fees as an actor, but I realised it was better to keep the two apart. Now, I take my fees in cash, for acting, and keep the distribution thing separate."
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"The head of the CIA, it seems to me, would think long and hard before he admitted that former employees of his had been involved in the murder of the President of the United States-even if they weren't acting on behalf of the Agency when they did it."
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"There's nothing more boring than unintelligent actors, because all they have to talk about is themselves and acting. There have to be other things."
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"When I get to my deathbed, I don't want to take my last breath and say, Well, how glorious. I've left the world my acting credits. I won't even think that."
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"In general, I find that for videos the acting is more realistic."
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"The enemy resembles us. Therefore, he needs to be approached not as an assembly of 'targets' to be destroyed one by one; but as a living, intelligent entity capable of acting and reacting."
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"Acting is like roller skating. Once you know how to do it, it is neither stimulating nor exciting."
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"I always need a couple of highlights to really spark the passion for a project."
Passion
"I love mixing amateurs and professionals."
Love
"My father was an amateur filmmaker who shot 8mm color documentaries."
Family
"But now I wish I could back to Stockholm to make international films there."
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"But I notice that there is a lack of darkness in my movies and I don't know where that comes from."
Movies
"My father would tell anyone who would listen that this dentist thing he was doing was not his passion; cinematography was."
Family
"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
"I am always more interested in performance and character depiction, and my direction says as much."
Character
"A film that is bleached tends to have a more realistic quality."
Quality
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