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

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.

Unfortunately, the way the world is constructed, a lot of people have no chance, from day one.

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.

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

Even the most despicable person is still a human being.