Stellan Skarsgard Quotes

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Stellan Skarsgard

Profession : Actor

Birth : June 13, 1951

If you look at Kirsten Dunst's performance in 'Melancholia,' which I think is absolutely wonderful - it's not even in the text, because she doesn't say much; it's all in her eyes. She doesn't have to explain what she's feeling. You just feel it.

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

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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.

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I'm in Stockholm in my office. I just got here after seeing my eighth child on an ultrasound, so I'm in a good mood. It's beautiful: an energetic little skeleton.

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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.

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I never help my kids and I never encourage them and I never give them any advice.

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Casting a film, you can have the greatest actors in a film and it doesn't work. It's a combination of all of the elements.

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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.

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

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I love having 30 shots of every scene.

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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.

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

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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.

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Shooting should not be about delivering something I've prepared; it should be a live process of finding things out. When things happen that you haven't planned, that's when the film comes alive.

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With Fincher, you can take chances and try things. And what happens is that any pretension and preparation you've done, all the square, intellectual work, you can't keep that up for 40 takes. It breaks down, and new things start popping up. This, for me, is the most exciting thing about film-making.

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I only did 'Thor' because it was Kenneth Branagh directing, but I enjoyed it much more than I thought I would.

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It's good to pay high taxes - you have free schools, free universities. It's a much more decent society than those where everybody pays their own way, and some people don't get anything.

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Kenneth Branagh is one of the funniest directors on the set. You laugh a lot. He's very skillful.

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I am indeed a fan of John le Carre's novels.

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I think I was 13 years old when my father put in my hands 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold.' It was the first real adult book I ever read, and it opened a new world.

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