Casting a film, you can have the greatest actors in a film and it doesn't work. It's a combination of all of the elements.

if a real God were actually so vain as to constantly demand worship, then he would not be worth it.

I've done so many sex scenes in my life and it's much easier to do a funny sex scene than a sex scene that is supposed to look like it feels.

People don't want to read subtitles.

I treat everyone as equals. I can't work if I'm not having fun, and I can't have fun if not everyone is happy.

I'm in Stockholm in my office. I just got here after seeing my eighth child on an ultrasound, so I'm in a good mood. It's beautiful: an energetic little skeleton.

Norway is a small country, about half the size of Sweden, but it has a very good film climate because they have municipal cinemas, so even in the smallest towns you have a cinema that shows art house films from all over the world.