I love working with Lars [von Trier]! I've worked with him three times. I did the narration of Dogville and Manderlay.

My springboard is always the script. Even if the script is taken from a novel, I often haven't read the novel...

Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances. And it's being able - I can't tell you how one does, but one tries to read those circumstances correctly.

Snowpiercer has both [optimistic and pessimistic]. It was essentially optimistic. The most pessimistic was my part, because of his knowledge. He knows how it started. The status quo, he knows, has to be maintained, otherwise there is no chance. He knows that this revolution is completely understandable and is also commendable. He also knows the negatives. In the end, that's not a very positive position to be in.

I think it's interesting to see how things come into and go out of fashion.

I am really the victim of other people's imagination.

When you're really working well with a director then you can be as outrageous as you like and so can he. And there's no worry about it.