I started acting long before I decided to pursue it. I started acting as an amateur when I was a kid, but I wanted to become a diplomat. It was self-centered and weird, but I had this idea of going out in the world and solving conflicts and making the world a better place.

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.

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

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.

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.