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Stellan Skarsgard Quotes

Swedish - Actor | June 13, 1951 -

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

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Good Grow Grow Up Educated Up Film

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.

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Good Think Humanity Look Bad Way

Shooting should not be about delivering something I've prepared; it should be a live process of finding things out. When things happen that you haven't planned, that's when the film comes alive.

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Live Process Finding You Alive Out

I've never thought of myself as a professional. I very rarely do something I don't enjoy.

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Myself Thought Enjoy Professional

With Fincher, you can take chances and try things. And what happens is that any pretension and preparation you've done, all the square, intellectual work, you can't keep that up for 40 takes. It breaks down, and new things start popping up. This, for me, is the most exciting thing about film-making.

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Work New Things Preparation Me Start

I think Dan Brown is a terribly bad writer, but he has cliff-hangers after every chapter which makes you continue reading.

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Reading Think You Bad Chapter Brown

I only did 'Thor' because it was Kenneth Branagh directing, but I enjoyed it much more than I thought I would.

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Thought More Because Would Directing

It's good to pay high taxes - you have free schools, free universities. It's a much more decent society than those where everybody pays their own way, and some people don't get anything.

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Good People Society Free You Way

The first time I did a big American film, I was surprised by all the different financiers who came to the set and told the director what to do.

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Time American First Time First Big

In Europe, the director is the king: it's his vision. It's an auteur tradition.

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Vision King Tradition Director His

The distribution systems and the cinemas have adopted to the blockbusters, and they now get their main income from selling popcorn, and if you don't make a film that sells popcorn, it's very hard to get it out there.

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You Selling Now Popcorn Hard Out

Kenneth Branagh is one of the funniest directors on the set. You laugh a lot. He's very skillful.

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Laugh You Funniest Set He Very

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