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You learn a lot from kids.
Stellan Skarsgard
You
Kids
Learn
Lot
A film doesn't exist until it meets its audience.
Stellan Skarsgard
Meets
Until
Audience
Exist
Film
Man is such an amazing animal, and the possibilities are infinite for each person.
Stellan Skarsgard
Man
Animal
Amazing
Possibilities
Person
Infinite
Each
I am not only lucky to be an actor, but I am lucky to be one of the most privileged actors in the world because I can do all kinds of films and genres and everything.
Stellan Skarsgard
World
Films
Everything
Kinds
Only
Most
Genres
Because
Am
Privileged
Lucky
Actor
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
Funny
Me
Dark
Challenge
Dark Side
Everybody
Side
Something
Course
Accessible
Very
Serious
Thinks
It's not in the tradition: not even the schoolkids have hot lunches in Norway. They bring a couple of sandwiches from home.
Stellan Skarsgard
Home
Hot
Couple
Tradition
Norway
Sandwiches
Even
Bring
The core to what makes Fincher really interesting - all the technique and all that, that is not in the center even if it's a big big part - what is in the center is the characters, and he really is interested in that.
Stellan Skarsgard
Big
Characters
He
Part
Makes
Big Part
Center
Interested
Interesting
Really
Even
Technique
Core
If you understand each other's way of thinking, you understand what kind of film someone is trying to make, and all the ideas that I come up with will fit into that film.
Stellan Skarsgard
You
Will
Thinking
Other
Way
Kind
Someone
Come
Ideas
Make
Understand
Fit
Up
Trying
Each
Film
When you work with someone you don't quite know, you have to figure the director out, and you can come up with ideas that are counter-productive.
Stellan Skarsgard
Work
You
Director
Out
Someone
Come
Ideas
Know
Up
Quite
Figure
I'm not lazy on set. I'm lazy in the rest of my life.
Stellan Skarsgard
Life
Rest
My Life
Lazy
Set
I still live in Sweden. That's my base. When I'm not working, I'm there.
Stellan Skarsgard
Live
Still
Sweden
Working
Base
I'm not a signing or dancing man.
Stellan Skarsgard
Man
Dancing
Signing
I don't do sports, really.
Stellan Skarsgard
Sports
Really
I don't feel ashamed or humiliated when I am naked, but I definitely feel it when I am playing games.
Stellan Skarsgard
Naked
Humiliated
Definitely
Feel
Am
Ashamed
Games
Playing
Playing Games
I don't know if I am a good cook, but I am a dedicated cook.
Stellan Skarsgard
Good
Know
Am
Cook
Dedicated
Good Cook
I have been threatened occasionally. But that happens to everybody who is writing this kind of things. Threats will come without fail. It might happen to the most 'innocent' texts. If it gets too much we call the police.
Stieg Larsson
Writing
Police
Innocent
Too Much
Will
Too
Everybody
Kind
Threatened
Threats
Fail
Come
Most
Call
Occasionally
Without
Been
Texts
Gets
Happen
Happens
Might
Much
Who
Things
Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn't primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical literature.
Stieg Larsson
Entertainment
Writing
Light
Detective
Detective Stories
Classical
Propaganda
About
Primarily
Question
Stories
Literature
Some of the writers I've praised are Sara Paretsky, Val McDermid, Elisabeth George and Minette Walters. Strangely enough, almost all are women.
Stieg Larsson
Women
Val
Enough
Some
Writers
Almost
Almost All
Praised
George
Strangely
I'm a fast writer, and crime novels are easy to do. It's much harder to write a 1,000 word article, where everything has to be 100 per cent correct.
Stieg Larsson
Word
Crime
Everything
Correct
Easy
Per
Write
Writer
Article
Where
Cent
Much
Novels
Fast
Harder
I am not altogether confident of my ability to put my thoughts into words: My texts are usually better after an editor has hacked away at them, and I am used to both editing and being edited. Which is to say that I am not oversensitive in such matters.
Stieg Larsson
Thoughts
Editing
Words
Better
Matters
Say
Ability
Both
Hacked
Put
Altogether
Edited
Editor
Am
Texts
Confident
Being
After
Which
Them
Used
Away
I abhor crime novels in which the main character can behave however he or she pleases, or do things that normal people do not do, without those actions having social consequences.
Stieg Larsson
Character
People
Crime
Consequences
Pleases
Those
Abhor
Having
Main
Main Character
He
He Or She
She
Without
However
Normal
Normal People
Behave
Which
Social
Actions
Novels
Things
I really wanted to discover mummies, like Indiana Jones.
Svante Paabo
Indiana
Indiana Jones
Like
Discover
Wanted
Really
Our age is before all things a practical one. It demands of us all clear and tangible results of our work.
Theodor Svedberg
Work
Age
Before
Our
All Things
Results
Clear
Demands
Practical
Tangible
Us
Things
The investigations which have seemingly been the most purely abstract have often formed the foundation of the most important changes or improvements in the conditions of human life.
Theodor Svedberg
Life
Important
Changes
Purely
Seemingly
Investigations
Abstract
Most
Been
Conditions
Often
Human
The Most Important
Which
Formed
Human Life
Foundation
I've been in lots of situations in my life where I've managed to turn pain into growing pains.
Tobias Forge
Life
My Life
Pain
Been
Lots
Situations
Where
Turn
Pains
Growing
I never, ever, wanna see 'The Conjuring' again - ever. I don't wanna see 'Annabelle' again.
Tobias Forge
See
Never
Wanna
Again
Ever
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