But now I wish I could back to Stockholm to make international films there.

I got to work with my wife, Lena Olin, for the first time, which was great. I thought it might be difficult in some way to talk to one's wife in a different way but it was so not forced.

I am always more interested in performance and character depiction, and my direction says as much.

I love involving actors at all levels - and they have to know that I want to hear their contributions, with dialogue, with story suggestions, with script changes, whatever.

To see my wife getting inspired from my notes and thoughts, going in the direction I wanted, and have her surprise me with wonderful choices was a real treat.

I always need a couple of highlights to really spark the passion for a project.

[Depp] has real ambitions, but he is deeply afraid of being considered pretentious.