Stellan Skarsgard Quotes & Sayings

“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.”

“Even the most despicable person is still a human being.”

“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.”

“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.”

“One of the beauties of 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' is the very delicate and strange relationship between the two main characters.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“There is no overacting, only untrue acting.”

“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.”