When you do a TV show, there's always the fear that it will become tired and you'll know exactly what's going to happen.

I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.

I'm very dedicated to the things I do.

I'd rather be voted "the sexiest man in Denmark" than "the ugliest man in Denmark".

Machiavelli had some cold tricks for people who wanted to be demagogues and wanted to take over the world.

Sometimes we misunderstand what films can do. We just throw a whole book in there, with people just talking, talking, and talking. The picture can tell, the frame can tell.

Sometimes you have a period piece where you have to research around it but, if the writers have done their homework well enough, the information is all in the script.