There is no overacting, only untrue acting.

There was a Russian director named Elem Klimov, who did his films during the communist days. They were constantly struggling with the authorities and to be allowed to express themselves. But he did one of the best war movies I've ever seen - it's called 'Come and See.'

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

I love having 30 shots of every scene.

One of the beauties of 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' is the very delicate and strange relationship between the two main characters.

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.

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.