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.

When you work with someone you don't quite know, you have to figure the director out and you can come up with ideas that are counter-productive.

Norwegian kids, they grow up well educated in film. So they have a lot of good directors there.

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'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.

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

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