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.

Unfortunately, the way the world is constructed, a lot of people have no chance, from day one.

I don't think that people in the world, in general, have too many chances.

I started acting long before I decided to pursue it. I started acting as an amateur when I was a kid, but I wanted to become a diplomat. It was self-centered and weird, but I had this idea of going out in the world and solving conflicts and making the world a better place.

All directors are control freaks and very obsessive. I get the feeling that directors as kids, they all have had a childhood with not too much contact with other kids. They constructed their own reality and they continue to do it. It's a funny breed, directors.

Theres nothing more reassuring than a world thats crazier than you are.

It takes a long time to make me beautiful, but it goes fast to make me ugly.