You gain and lose different things in different mediums or different sectors of different mediums. There are liberties you get on tiny indie films in terms of not having to be designed toward a marketing demographic.

Producing is making films without having to work sometimes. It’s still making films, but it’s a different job.

Filmmaking isn’t if you can just strap on a camera onto an actor, and steadicam, and point it at their face, and follow them through the movie, that is not what moviemaking is, that is not what it’s about. It’s not just about getting a performance. It’s also about the psychology of the cinematic moment,...

Franchises aren’t to be avoided. They can be exciting, and they give you opportunities to do other films.

My films do have characters who have trouble escaping the world around them.

People who LIKE movies have a favorite. People who LOVE movies couldn’t possibly choose.

But the process of making a film is not glamorous. Certainly not my films.

I’ve been fortunate to be in films that are classic, that are going to be around.

You can make as many films as you like, but if nobody wants to put them on, what’s the point?

I have to say I’ve been lucky in that way in that I’ve been able to go from different films and different genres with different challenges.

It’s incredible that they censor films. It’s sad.

I hope to be 70 and sitting at the table with journalists, talking about my films.

My family was never cultural in that we never went to see plays, my mum wasn’t very into films.

I feel I’ve made the transition from model to actress, but I’m not that secure about it. Lauren Hutton, Jennifer O’Neill – we all know that a few films don’t mean all that much.

The films that I love are very straightforward stories, like really old-fashioned stuff.

If my films make one more person miserable, I’ll feel I have done my job.

I am a big fan of Adam Sandler and Ben Stiller, who have carved a niche for themselves. I think doing different kind of films gives you longevity and the ability to set yourself apart.

I’ve not used a score in any of my films so far.

[As for the] blur … I can’t allow one of my films to go out that way; it would be foolish. And given what the scene is about, it would be very distracting.

I don’t make films that are easy to market, unfortunately. I think that ‘Pi’ was the easiest one, because we had that symbol to stick up everywhere, so that was a good gimmick, and created a good mystery, and we didn’t have to do huge scale.

I think ‘Rockstar’ is more dear to me than any of my other films.

The trouble with Hollywood films is that they always have a pleasant ending.

For behaviorist films, that’s been much more useful – the change of technology – but for my kind of films, doing them on film is much better, because it’s more beautiful.

I haven’t got an opportunity to experiment with the dimensions of my moustache much. But yes, if the role demands, I’m ready to shave it off. I feel it’s good to have moustaches for South films, but I’d love to remove my moustache; why not?

My directors of photography light my films, but the colours of the sets, furnishings, clothes, hairstyles – that’s me. Everything that’s in front of the camera, I bring you.

When I’m actually making a film and trying to find solutions, I like to watch making-of documentaries about huge films, like ‘Gladiator.’ That couldn’t be more apart from what I’m doing, but you see Ridley Scott facing huge problems and fixing them.

I like shows or films or books that have messages but don’t beat people over the head with them.

I spent a couple of years doing American films. I did a few.

That’s what the movies do. They don’t entertain us, they don’t send the message: ‘We care.’ They give us lines to say, they assign us parts: John Wayne, Theda Bara, Shirley Temple, take your pick.

A lot of Hollywood films tend to be bloated, bombastic, loud. At the same time, I do like the infrastructure of making a blockbuster; it’s like having a big train set.

But now I wish I could back to Stockholm to make international films there.

I would love to do films. It’s just the way things happened for me – I ended up doing a lot of TV.

It’s funny: I’ve been very successful and done a lot of films, and I don’t really have an agent – I don’t really pursue jobs, I let people come to me.

Even though I’ve done Hollywood films, I still don’t think of myself as a Hollywood actress.

For me with all this stuff, both the horror films and thrillers like this, the most interesting thing is what goes on inside people’s heads, … The rest is just the setting. She is sort of trapped in her seat, with this guy a few inches apart watching her facial expressions for clues about what...

It’s funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you watch them on a screen.

We were trying to make a movie that was funny, but also trying to be smart about being funny. We just wanted to make people laugh,. If you want to make a comedy you just don’t want to hit people in the groin for two hours, even though that’s really funny too. We wanted our...

But no one should have the right to manipulate my films in the first place.

There were many, many other ‘Django’ films following mine, with other actors and directors, but there is only one ‘Django.’

‘Alien’ is one of my all-time favorite horror films – that has a great monster.

For me, the most absorbing films are those that address big questions and real ideas but embody them in small examples that we can appreciate and comprehend.

If they made films in Palm Beach, actors and actresses would be much better dressed.

It’s not easy for Chinese actors to do foreign films, and it’s not easy for foreign actors to do Chinese films.

The golden rule has always been to remake films that were not a success, if you saw something in them. To remake a movie that’s already a milestone offers audiences very little that they haven’t already seen, the way ‘Lord of the Rings’ did.

Usually, I make such small-budget films that I can’t afford to buy weather.

I’m really easily affected by horror films. I have pretty strong reactions to them.

Do we root for Michael Corleone in the ‘Godfather’ films? I think so, even if he is a monster.

The physical journey in my films is indicative of the internal journey that my characters take.

I haven’t been to a movie for three months of Sundays. I gather from what Carolyn reports that Hollywood now produces false entertainment: unmitigated violence on the screen; snickering, laughter in the audience.

For seven years, I made films in the cinema verite tradition – photographing what was happening without manipulating it. Then I realised I wanted to make things happen for myself, through feature films.