Producers are not gamblers. They want a good return on their investment.

It's important to me to work in my own language now and then. I love English, but you can never learn to master a foreign language if you're not brought up with it

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

Filming is repetition and many takes

I like to play with things a while before annihilation.

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

All my life I've been looking for diversity