I played a heap of snow in a school play. I was under a sheet, and crawled out when spring came. I often say I'll never reach the same artistic level again.

I'm not always happy when Hollywood does remakes of films, but that's usually, when they have a very, very, very good film and they take away anything controversial from it and make flatter.

People don't want to read subtitles.

We don't live. We're miming in the choir.

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.

I'm not lazy on set. I'm lazy in the rest of my life.

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