I spent almost 3 months with Bergman, four hours every afternoon. We sat and went through the whole script. To be honest, most of the time we talked about life and other different things. It...

I like the vulnerability, the naked face. And then, of course, I hadn’t done a contemporary story in 3 or 4 films, so that also interested me.

It was a major dream come true at last. In many respects, Jerusalem is a very modern and important story about people in a period of transition, with all the unrest that permeates society on...

Les Miserables. I never read the book before, but when I read this script it was so outstanding, so brilliant, I wanted to make it.

He considers the theatrical version of Fanny and Alexander an amputated version of what his original film was, and he doesn’t really like the shorter film.

We talked a lot about The Best Intentions and how we could shoot certain scenes in different ways with slightly different bits of dialogue and information, so that later on, we could cut the piece...

The novel is a penetrating study of morals and ethics.

I wanted to make Jerusalem as feature film. But we couldn’t finance it only through theatrical release, we couldn’t get all the money we needed. We had to get some money from television. So we...

She is also brought to a point of zero in the beginning of the story, and I think you can say that about a lot of my films in that they are often about people...

The big difference is the size of the crew and the flexibility of shooting because of the size. I mean, it’s crazy. So you can’t improvise, you cannot suddenly do something that comes to mind,...

From the beginning, we were prepared, we know how we would shoot and cut the two versions.

I was mostly interested in it as a theatrical film. Personally, I am not so interested in television, simply because I don’t watch television myself. I’m into movies.

It was actually Peter’s idea that I should make the film. He called me in the very beginning, and I hadn’t even read the book. So I read it and I liked it very much...