Spielberg knows his craft so well, he can also improvise, and that is a lot of fun.

I've never been in a barroom brawl in my life. I just don't do such things

Do it, do it, do it. And watch good actors. See what they are doing and how they are doing it. You have to practically participate, I think, in order to develop yourself.

Movies give me an opportunity to go places. I'm not only a Swede but an American, not just a man of my time, but I've been living 2,000 years ago-and not just in a new country, America, but in the Holy Land, too

I like to play with things a while before annihilation.

I began imagining scenes in public which some drunk would come up to me and slap me in the face. Nothing like that ever happened, but I often wonder if I would have turned the other cheek

Only very rarely are foreigners or first-generation immigrants allowed to be nice people in American films. Those with an accent are bad guys