Stellan Skarsgard Quotes
Quotations and aphorisms by Stellan Skarsgard:
People don't want to read subtitles.
~Stellan Skarsgard


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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.
~Stellan Skarsgard


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


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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.
~Stellan Skarsgard


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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.
~Stellan Skarsgard


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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.
~Stellan Skarsgard


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


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


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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.
~Stellan Skarsgard


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I love having 30 shots of every scene.
~Stellan Skarsgard


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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


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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.
~Stellan Skarsgard


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There is no overacting, only untrue acting.
~Stellan Skarsgard


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Even the most despicable person is still a human being.
~Stellan Skarsgard


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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.
~Stellan Skarsgard


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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.
~Stellan Skarsgard


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