Whether I'm interested [in something] or not, step one is read the script and figure out if a character is someone I'd want to explore or not.

Swedes are such a civilised, perfect society - at least on the surface. There's a great safety net, a huge middle class, free education, free health care. People are very polite, they wait their turn. They're not too loud, they're not too quiet, but sometimes it's a little too perfect.

When you meet a director who wants to remake a movie, you have to ask, does he or she have an interesting vision and idea, something that intrigues you - is there a reason why we should do this?

Whether I'm interested [in something] or not, step one is read the script and figure out if a character is someone I'd want to explore or not.

You can never connect on a deeper level if you idolise someone - you don't see the real person.

We don't have paparazzi following you in Sweden.

Life is crazy. You travel and you're busy and there's so much going on that it's important to have the moments where you can breathe and you can just be present with the person or the people that you're there with.