I’m interested in people’s darker side, the ones that aren’t easy and well balanced. The cracks.

If I don’t see myself as a victim, then I’m not a victim.

I can’t see any value in being a celebrity, famous for being famous.

I want to explore more sides of humanity and myself. That’s what acting is about.

I’ve always been very stubborn, had a very clear will of what I want to do.

So I kind of lost track for a while, then I came back, I pulled myself together and I decided when I was 15 that I’m going to get sober and I’m going to become...

When I don’t understand things, I become passionate to understand.

I always felt like I was on the move, that I was going towards something.

I’m interested in people’s darker side, the ones that aren’t easy and well balanced. The cracks.

When I was a teenager, I was like, ‘Something is wrong with me. I don’t fit in. I’m not like everybody else.’ So, I always knew that I wanted to explore and move on, but...

I was a punk rocker when I was a teenager. I wanted to look like Nancy Spungen. I had dyed blonde hair and lots of piercings.

I hate when you see a film and after one scene you know what’s going to happen and you can predict the whole story.

It’s better to not be afraid of things and not avoid things.

I like doing fight scenes. I always have, and I insist on doing as much of that action as they’ll let me do. I think that’s easy for me.

I don’t have this crazy dream about going to Hollywood, because I really love to watch movies and do movies that are complicated, and I want more strange things and complicated things.

I think Stieg Larsson was pretty brave. He wanted to bring up things that we don’t like to talk about, or like to ignore.

I’m terrified of being too famous. What I’m really afraid of is that the audiences will go into the theater and not be able to forget that it’s me, that fame will stand in the...

We need more extreme movies in Sweden. Personal projects that are necessarily made for a bigger audience. I think it creates a creative lock-up to have the audience as a goal.

In Sweden everybody has this perfect surface. Everyone’s very polite and controls their feelings.