Since suffering confers no rights on its victims, we who witness are the ones responsible for restoring these lost rights.
Liv UllmannYou see that a lot in movies, and today you see it more in movies that are made, because I feel more movies are made towards groups than towards individuals, and they're made more for mass media than for sitting in a movie house allowing it to happen.
Liv UllmannOne of the things I like about my profession, and that I find healthy, is that one constantly has to break oneself to pieces.
Liv UllmannIt is only the untalented director who imagines him or herself in every part, wants his or her own thoughts and emotions portrayed; it is only the untalented who make their own limitations those of the actors as well.
Liv UllmannThe best thing that can come with success is the knowledge that it is nothing to long for.
Liv UllmannBooks have always been living things to me. Some of my encounters with new authors have changed my life a little. When I have been perplexed, looking for something I could not define to myself, a certain book has turned up, approached me as a friend would. And between it's cover carried the questions and the answers I was looking for.
Liv Ullmann