I can't expect people to decide that they will change with me, so I can see why I'm on the old side.

It's better to wake up alone knowing that you're alone, than waking up with someone and still be lonely

August Strindberg gave me the opportunity to have this incredible story [Miss Julie ], about the class system, about unfairness in life, but also this story about man and woman. What I wanted, because he gave me the freedom, to give her a voice that I missed a little in her.

The Summer Book is beautiful and warm, with the kind of wisdom we can adapt to our everyday lives.

I believe that it is sometimes less difficult to wake up and feel that I am alone when I really am, than to wake up with someone else and be lonely.

Nothing ever comes to an end. Wherever one has sunk roots that emanate from one's best or truest self, one will always find a home.

Ibsen was Norwegian by birth, but universal in spirit.