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Max von Sydow

"Movies give me an opportunity to go places. I'm not only a Swede but an American, not just a man of my time, but I've been living 2,000 years ago-and not just in a new country, America, but in the Holy Land, too."

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"Movies give me an opportunity to go places. I'm not only a Swede but an American, not just a man of my time, but I've been living 2,000 years ago-and not just in a new country, America, but in the Holy Land, too."

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"I've done movies with a sword before. But I haven't really been given the full responsibility of something like a Ridley Scott film."

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"I like the idea of movies having a magic element. How many times have you seen an actor in a movie who you know only as the character? It's wonderful, isn't it?"

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"The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed."

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Akiroq Brost

"The future is always a dystopia in movies."

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Akiroq Brost

"A lot of action movies today seem to have scenes that just lead up to the action."

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Akiroq Brost

"And there have certainly been movies I wanted to be in and milestones I wanted to surpass that did not happen."

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"You have to get the audience invested even if you're doing something that they think is dumb, it's kind of what these movies are all about."

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"January is the garbage can of movies in America, directly after all the Oscar contenders have been out."

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Akiroq Brost

"My partner, Beth Alexander, and I want to produce smaller films, but commercially viable films that will enable me to make the kinds of movies I want to make."

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Akiroq Brost

"The other two things are... well, I had a huge appetite for old black and white movies on BBC 2. At the weekends they used to run matinees, and the more romantic the better."

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Max von Sydow
"A vacation spot out of season always has a very special magic."

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Max von Sydow
"It's important to me to work in my own language now and then. I love English, but you can never learn to master a foreign language if you're not brought up with it."

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Max von Sydow
"I remember those days with Bergman with great nostalgia. We were aware that the films were going to be quite important, and the work felt meaningful."

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Max von Sydow
"I just feel I shouldn't work too much, because there are so many other things to do."

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"I think English is a fantastic, rich and musical language, but of course your mother tongue is the most important for an actor."

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Max von Sydow
"In a theater, the part is mine and I can control it as I want to. In the movies, I don't have direct contact, and I am fighting technical machinery."

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Max von Sydow
"The idea of working with Steven Spielberg was very attractive. He's such a master. He knows the language of the camera and of filmmaking, which gives him a great freedom."

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Max von Sydow
"I've never been in a barroom brawl in my life. I just don't do such things."

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Max von Sydow
"In Hollywood they usually cast me as villains or priests."

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Max von Sydow
"I began imagining scenes in public which some drunk would come up to me and slap me in the face. Nothing like that ever happened, but I often wonder if I would have turned the other cheek."

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