50 Quotes by Lasse Hallstrom

I am always more interested in performance and character depiction, and my direction says as much.

I was always attracted by the European way of life, but I am deeply Swedish.

It's just, for me, the natural standard: a woman should be able to decide over her own body.

My father was an amateur filmmaker who shot 8mm color documentaries.

I got to work with my wife, Lena Olin, for the first time, which was great. I thought it might be difficult in some way to talk to one's wife in a different way but it was so not forced.

I imagined that it might be awkward to talk to your wife about her performance, so going into it I was a little nervous. But doing it was actually a wonderfully inspiring experience.

I think it's doing important things like taking care of his baby and being a father. We miss him here, but we don't blame him for taking care of family.

We were allowed into places that nobody has ever been allowed to shoot before,

You have to shake off and do the things you need to do to be true to the novel - mainly depart from it, and re-invent, and compress.