50 Quotes by Lasse Hallstrom

It's a farce, it's a romp, it's a glass of champagne, ... It's whatever you need for the moment. I enjoyed my half-year working on it, and I hope that joy that we experienced will be reflected a little on the screen.

It's getting more and more difficult to define the nationality of a film because the financing and participants come from all over the world.

It's definitely the best she's done since then, Casanova.

You could have, with organization, done interiors in a different place and done exteriors in Venice, but it would have felt much more staged, theatrical, and these are things that were against it coming alive.

The cider house rules are the metaphor for those rules that you feel you have to oppose because you feel they don't make sense to you.

Kevin, as the whole cast is, just wonderful people and great people, and people who are attracted to this kind of material and accepting the idea of going to Newfoundland and knowing the kind of lack of amenities.

To see my wife getting inspired from my notes and thoughts, going in the direction I wanted, and have her surprise me with wonderful choices was a real treat.

[Depp] has real ambitions, but he is deeply afraid of being considered pretentious.

I love involving actors at all levels - and they have to know that I want to hear their contributions, with dialogue, with story suggestions, with script changes, whatever.