I'd much rather work with people that are tricky and difficult than people that just say yes to everything.
I was a punk rocker when I was a teenager. I wanted to look like Nancy Spungen. I had dyed blonde hair and lots of piercings.
In Sweden everybody has this perfect surface. Everyones very polite and controls their feelings.
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.
It's better to not be afraid of things and not avoid things.
I'm interested in people's darker side, the ones that aren't easy and well balanced. The cracks.
My husband, when I was filming the Millennium movies, he asked me, `How far are you going and when are you coming back?'
I think most gypsies all over the world are used to being not really welcome and always on the run, expecting people to not like them and to be critical.
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.
I want to explore more sides of humanity and myself. That's what acting is about.
I've always been very stubborn, had a very clear will of what I want to do.
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 want actors. I want to be with other people. I don't wanna be alone, because of the connection when you're in a room, in a scene with someone, and it comes to life. You feel like the moment is something magic.
I can't see any value in being a celebrity, famous for being famous.
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.
If I don't see myself as a victim, then I'm not a victim.
I like doing fight scenes. I always have, and I insist on doing as much of that action as they'll let me do. I think that's easy for me.
We need more extreme movies in Sweden.Personal projects that are necessarily made for a bigger audience. I think it creates a creative lock-up to have the audience as a goal.
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.
Sometimes I have good ideas. I love that part of our job. It's a constant process of searching, of exploring stuff, and realizing things. You can be in the middle of the film and it's like, "Oh my God! I think we need to do this! Maybe in this scene she should shave her head!"
The weird thing is that, with actors, filmmakers and directors, it doesn't really matter if it's Robert Downey Jr., who's one of the biggest stars in the world, when you start to work, he's a hardworking actor. At the end of the day, it doesn't matter who's a big star and who's an unknown actor from wherever. It's all about the work you do.
With most movies I've done before, I've done a lot of preparation. I've known about them long before [shooting], and I've prepped and changed my body and done research, and all the things you could imagine.
I'm never satisfied. I can always find things that I can do better and go further on, so I force myself to accept when someone says, "We have it, it's good and we can move on."
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 always push myself, even when I did a film where it was pretty much me the whole film.
