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The biggest enemy of any actor is fear.

A film doesn't exist until it meets its audience.

Stellan Skarsgard

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

Stellan Skarsgard

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

Stellan Skarsgard

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

Stellan Skarsgard

I can say yes to some directors without even reading a script. But the first-time directors I've worked with, the scripts have not been perfect, but they had something that I liked.

Stellan Skarsgard

I'm almost sometimes too subtle in my acting.

Stellan Skarsgard

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.

Stellan Skarsgard

I love having 30 shots of every scene.

Stellan Skarsgard

We have to know that the bad guys are not different from us in the world.

Stellan Skarsgard

I'm not a signing or dancing man.

Stellan Skarsgard

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

Stellan Skarsgard

Everybody thinks I'm so serious and the dark side is very accessible to me, so of course it's a challenge to do something funny.

Stellan Skarsgard

If I ever lose a job because I've talked about being an atheist, then I don't want that job.

Stellan Skarsgard

My parents were rather unconventional and did not accept rules unless they thought they were defendable. They were atheists when Sweden was a very Christian country.

Stellan Skarsgard

How many big American films do you see where the heroine has no vanity whatsoever?

Stellan Skarsgard

Most of my acting in general is about what's going on in the head, and the lines are just something that comes out.

Stellan Skarsgard

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.

Stellan Skarsgard

The biggest enemy of any actor is fear.

Stellan Skarsgard

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.

Stellan Skarsgard

It's fun to play characters with a past, but it's also fun to play any role that is what I would call a 'pressure cooker' kind of character, where the lid is on, and it's left to simmer throughout the movie.

Stellan Skarsgard

I've got a lot of weaknesses. One of them is that I often get scared and tense when I'm working - and fear is one of the big threats to any good performance, because it closes you down and makes it harder for you to produce life in front of the camera.

Stellan Skarsgard

I think Dan Brown is a terribly bad writer, but he has cliff-hangers after every chapter which makes you continue reading.

Stellan Skarsgard

People don't want to read subtitles.

Stellan Skarsgard

There is no overacting, only untrue acting.

Stellan Skarsgard

Even the most despicable person is still a human being.

Stellan Skarsgard

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.

Stellan Skarsgard

There was a Russian director named Elem Klimov, who did his films during the communist days. They were constantly struggling with the authorities and to be allowed to express themselves. But he did one of the best war movies I've ever seen - it's called 'Come and See.'

Stellan Skarsgard

I grew up in a family where you were allowed to say anything; you were allowed to show weakness... I have no problems talking about anything, basically. But at the same time, I know I'm different than a woman.

Stellan Skarsgard

The distribution systems and the cinemas have adopted to the blockbusters, and they now get their main income from selling popcorn, and if you don't make a film that sells popcorn, it's very hard to get it out there.

Stellan Skarsgard

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.

Stellan Skarsgard

When you have kids, you see what's important.

Stellan Skarsgard

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.

Stellan Skarsgard

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.

Stellan Skarsgard

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

Stellan Skarsgard

I wanted to get the opportunity to do what actresses do: play the inside of a person.

Stellan Skarsgard

I've worked with Lars von Trier on many films, and there's always a female character that's like an open wound - everything just pours out of this person.

Stellan Skarsgard