My father would tell anyone who would listen that this dentist thing he was doing was not his passion; cinematography was.

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

I feel the need to work with my wife, Lena Olin, again.

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

I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.

ABBA: The Movie; I got a lot of grief for working on that.

My key interest in choosing scripts is character-driven stories, because there are so many stories that sacrifice character for plot.