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 love having 30 shots of every scene.

It's really nice to go down to an extremely low-budget movie, but that is very daring and courageous and try something different, where the roles usually are more complicated.

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

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.

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

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.