I love filmmaking because it's like harvesting as a farmer. I have an idea, I get the financing, I write the script and then cast and shoot and edit. Then there is opening night, and after that I get another idea.

In life, new thoughts and ideas always clash with the old world order and habits.

I consider myself 'local' in Sweden.

In Sweden, we have what is called 'The Finnish Disease.' It consists of not talking much, or at all.

The longer I've been a director, the less I have to 'direct.'

Love can become overused.

I often use humor as a tool in my writing, and sometimes that works and sometimes it sits alone just as a funny line.