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

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.

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 love having 30 shots of every scene.

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

The way I look at humanity, I don't think there's good guys or bad guys. We're all potentially bad and potentially good.

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.