When you work with someone you don't quite know, you have to figure the director out and you can come up with ideas that are counter-productive.

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.

I played a heap of snow in a school play. I was under a sheet, and crawled out when spring came. I often say I'll never reach the same artistic level again.

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.

We don't live. We're miming in the choir.

I'm not lazy on set. I'm lazy in the rest of my life.