144 Quotes by Stellan Skarsgard

It takes a long time to make me beautiful, but it goes fast to make me ugly.

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.

I love having 30 shots of every scene.

I never help my kids and I never encourage them and I never give them any advice.

There was a Russian director named Elem Klimov, who did his films during the communist days. They were constantly struggling with the authorities and to be allowed to express themselves. But he did one of the best war movies I've ever seen - it's called 'Come and See.

I'm not religious or anything, but to me it's great fun and it's nice to have a lot of kids. They take care of each other.

In Hollywood you got work around you all the time. You can't get a taxi without that the driver hand you a script.

Actors are different. Some actors play themselves very successfully, but I come from the theater. Having done Shakespeare, we sometimes did three or four characters in the same play.

I started acting long before I decided to pursue it. I started acting as an amateur when I was a kid, but I wanted to become a diplomat. It was self-centered and weird, but I had this idea of going out in the world and solving conflicts and making the world a better place.