I was nervous when I first started True Blood because if you do a play or a movie, you know the complete arc of the character. You can see the end. But with a show like True Blood, you don't know what's going to happen.

Life isn't one-dimensional. The world isn't simply divided into good versus evil. I think we're all capable of both.

I'm from Sweden. We don't wear clothes in Sweden.

I was nervous when I first started True Blood because if you do a play or a movie, you know the complete arc of the character. You can see the end. But with a show like True Blood, you don't know what's going to happen.

I've been a member of Greenpeace since I was a teenager.

If you're a great documentary filmmaker, it doesn't necessarily mean that you're a great narrative filmmaker. There are fantastic documentary filmmakers that can't direct actors. You don't have to do that in a documentary, if it's a real documentary.

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.