The fear inside of loneliness: That only what others have is real.

I have the experience of age and suffering.

Ibsen was Norwegian by birth, but universal in spirit.

Colin [Farrell] I talked to several times on the phone, and I said, remember, we have only twenty-five days of doing the movie [Miss Julie], so you must know some of your text. I was a little un-feminist, I didn't want to say [bossy voice] "learn your text!" But when he came, he knew all his text.

The best thing that can come with success is the knowledge that it is nothing to long for.

I had the advantage, that I know Swedish. So I had the Swedish book and I had a lot of English translations, and German translations, and I did everything to make the best English translation of August Strindberg's Miss Julie I could. And then, there I went. "Oh! I think she's thinking this, but I think she should say it!" And so on. It's wonderful to do that.

One of the things I like about my profession, and that I find healthy, is that one constantly has to break oneself to pieces.