In Sweden everybody has this perfect surface. Everyone's very polite and controls their feelings.

I think Stieg Larsson was pretty brave. He wanted to bring up things that we don’t like to talk about, or like to ignore.

I can come up sometimes with ideas for scenes that I’m not in, to make it better or add something. It’s not about me, or my ego, that I wanna show this or that.

It’s better to not be afraid of things and not avoid things.

Some directors can tell stories and it becomes very intimate and small, and it’s almost like a secret. Some directors have the gift of finding a way to show it and tell the story, in a way that brings in the audience.

I think that I’m very passionate, and I know that if I decide to do a film, my character is going to take over my life.

I think it’s always the emotional situations that are more tricky to nail and get into because I don’t want to pretend.

Weirdly enough, I don’t like to pretend. I try to use things in me, and translate them into the situation and the characters, so it always needs to run through my own veins.

I don’t have this crazy dream about going to Hollywood, because I really love to watch movies and do movies that are complicated, and I want more strange things and complicated things.

For me, artists and people that are passionate are fighting for what they believe in and what they want, and that’s always appealing. I find that really interesting.