In Europe, the director is the king: it's his vision. It's an auteur tradition. — Stellan Skarsgard Copy Share Image
Norwegian kids, they grow up well educated in film. So they have a lot of good directors there. — Stellan Skarsgard Copy Share Image
You could probably ask anyone who loves Fincher films, and they couldn't answer why. — Stellan Skarsgard Copy Share Image
Lars von Trier is a very good storyteller. He's like an H. C. Andersen for adults. — Stellan Skarsgard Copy Share Image
Very often, it's the director that I'm attracted to. If it's a really good director, I don't even have to read the… — Stellan Skarsgard Copy Share Image
It's really nice to go down to an extremely low-budget movie, but that is very daring and courageous and try something different,… — Stellan Skarsgard Copy Share Image
I did a Norwegian film called 'Insomnia' that was remade and that was a good remake by a good director, so I'm… — Stellan Skarsgard Copy Share Image
Casting a film, you can have the greatest actors in a film and it doesn't work. It's a combination of all of… — Stellan Skarsgard Copy Share Image
I'm not always happy when Hollywood does remakes of films, but that's usually when they have a very, very, very good film,… — Stellan Skarsgard Copy Share Image
The difference between an experienced director and a new director is not as big as the difference between individual directors, the temperament… — Stellan Skarsgard Copy Share Image
You always have to figure out what the director is good at before you work with them; then you can fill in… — Stellan Skarsgard Copy Share Image
When you work with someone you don't quite know, you have to figure the director out, and you can come up with… — Stellan Skarsgard Copy Share Image
There was a Russian director named Elem Klimov, who did his films during the communist days. They were constantly struggling with the… — Stellan Skarsgard Copy Share Image
All directors have their strengths and weaknesses, as all actors have, and all artists. What you try to do is complete the… — Stellan Skarsgard Copy Share Image
Norway is a small country, about half the size of Sweden, but it has a very good film climate because they have… — Stellan Skarsgard Copy Share Image
The distribution systems and the cinemas have adopted to the blockbusters, and they now get their main income from selling popcorn, and… — Stellan Skarsgard Copy Share Image
With Fincher, you can take chances and try things. And what happens is that any pretension and preparation you've done, all the… — Stellan Skarsgard Copy Share Image
All directors are control freaks and very obsessive. I get the feeling that directors as kids, they all have had a childhood… — Stellan Skarsgard Copy Share Image
From my second son Gustav, I bought one of his complaints for 200 kroner. He was complaining that he was a middle… — Stellan Skarsgard Copy Share Image
Shooting should not be about delivering something I've prepared; it should be a live process of finding things out. When things happen… — Stellan Skarsgard Copy Share Image
I go where I think I can enjoy myself. Sometimes it's on a big movie, and sometimes it's even on a silly… — Stellan Skarsgard Copy Share Image
If you understand each other's way of thinking, you understand what kind of film someone is trying to make, and all the… — Stellan Skarsgard Copy Share Image
I can say yes to some directors without even reading a script. But the first-time directors I've worked with, the scripts have… — Stellan Skarsgard Copy Share Image
Some directors are interested in acting, and others are only interested in cranes and moving the camera. — Stellan Skarsgard Copy Share Image
I've made six films for Disney, and they have a clause in their contracts called the morality clause that I've always refused… — Stellan Skarsgard Copy Share Image
I am not a nationalist in any way, and I hate flag waving, and I don't think much good has come out of nationalism.… — Stellan Skarsgard Copy Share Image
The ethical code of my upbringing was be good to people and try not to hurt them. You don't need a god to tell… — Stellan Skarsgard Copy Share Image
Actors are different. Some actors play themselves very successfully, but I come from the theater. Having done Shakespeare, we sometimes did three or four… — Stellan Skarsgard Copy Share Image
We have to know that the bad guys are not different from us in the world. — Stellan Skarsgard Copy Share Image
Any society that starts forbidding certain words or expressions is a society you should be wary about, whether it's the KGB or social consensus… — Stellan Skarsgard Copy Share Image
Man is such an amazing animal, and the possibilities are infinite for each person. — Stellan Skarsgard Copy Share Image
It takes a long time to make me beautiful, but it goes fast to make me ugly. — Stellan Skarsgard Copy Share Image
Theres nothing more reassuring than a world thats crazier than you are. — Stellan Skarsgard Copy Share Image
Even if you're the President of the United States, you still act like a little child and think like a little child sometimes. Childish… — Stellan Skarsgard Copy Share Image
Most of my acting in general is about what's going on in the head, and the lines are just something that comes out. — Stellan Skarsgard Copy Share Image
In Europe, the director is the king: it's his vision. It's an auteur tradition. — Stellan Skarsgard Copy Share Image
