149 Quotes by Mads Mikkelsen

I fancy myself at being pretty good at understanding a script and finding the weaknesses, and then making them more radical than they are. People tend to listen to me.

We are filmmakers, and we are specifically trying to entertain people.

I was into sports and swimming as a kid and didn't spend a whole lot of time sitting down. I was a gymnast.

I take my work enormously seriously. When I do something, it has to feel right. Everything has to be right.

I was a late bloomer, but I had a career as a contemporary dancer before that, so I had some kind of connection to this world. But I was always a little more in love with the drama of dancing than the aesthetics, so I thought, 'Why don't you give it a chance if you think you can do it a little different?'

I watched westerns when I was a kid, like everybody else, but I wasn't a total nerd or geek about it. I kind of fell in love with westerns heavily when I started watching Sergio Leone's westerns.

I will never be a fan of any kind of political correctness: I think it's instant death to creativity.

I think they tried the 3-D revolution at least five times throughout history, and it never seemed to work. However, finally, 'Avatar' did it.

I was very energetic and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.