I love mixing amateurs and professionals.

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

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

I'm on this diet where you're supposed to eat only fish and meat.

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.

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