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.

People don't want to read subtitles.

Every culture has their myths that people are aware of and share.

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

I love having 30 shots of every scene.

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.

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