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

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

All directors are control freaks and very obsessive. I get the feeling that directors as kids, they all have had a childhood with not too much contact with other kids. They constructed their own reality and they continue to do it. It's a funny breed, directors.

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

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

I treat everyone as equals. I can't work if I'm not having fun, and I can't have fun if not everyone is happy.

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