I love mixing amateurs and professionals.

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.

But I notice that there is a lack of darkness in my movies and I don't know where that comes from.

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

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

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

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.