Cinema has become a global economy, totally international.

My films do have characters who have trouble escaping the world around them.

I love mixing amateurs and professionals.

I discovered the 7th art at home when I was kid, through Charlie Chaplin's movies and those of my father who shot documentaries. He was my biggest influence. So I took his camera and started shooting.

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.

I always try to preserve my cinematographic style, even while I work in the US. I wish to always be European.

Many of the comedies I had made in Sweden were slightly based on semi-autobiographical experiences, so adapting novels was a very different experience.