A biography for Joel Kinnamanhasn’t been written yet.
“I always look for good stories and good characters, and if they're placed in a whodunit, then I'm interested.”
“The north of Sweden is very socialist and poor. They feel left out and despise Stockholm in many ways because Stockholm has become new liberals and much more Americanized.”
“It's so scary to go on stage. I used to throw up before I went on stage, every time.”
“I love watching Samuel L. Jackson do anything, but for me, Gary Oldman is the grandmaster of the game.”
“Moving in is almost a bigger step than getting married.”
“Being an actor in movies is a lot about the power of your imagination and making the circumstance real to you so the audience will feel that it's real.”
“For somebody in my neighborhood to aspire or revere a person from the upper class, that is the most ugly and pathetic behavior you could exhibit.”
“My impression was, 'This Hollywood thing doesn't seem too hard.'”
“I miss the Swedish women on the first day of spring cause they all just blossom in the most incredible way.”
“It's technically demanding to shoot in 3-D. It's an extra element. Also, just the size of the cameras. They look like these 'Transformers' monsters; they are incredibly big, many of them.”
“In philosophy, they talk a lot about humans being actual organic machines, and the idea of free will is something that we've made up. We actually don't have free will. We're acting according to our programming as organic mechanisms.”
“I usually have pretty good intuition on projects that I work on.”
“'The Killing' has a really great combination of qualities: Even though it's very sad and deals with mourning and grief, it's still exciting. It's about real people and it doesn't shy from the painful points of life.”
“H&M makes it easy for a guy to look great every single day and create a personal style. Their men's collection always gives me a choice of how I want to dress, whether it be sharp in a suit and polo-neck, or more relaxed in jeans and a tweed jacket.”
“I miss Swedish meatballs, but you can get them pretty much anywhere.”
“I hate pork rinds. I couldn't imagine how anybody would ever get the idea of taking skin from a pig and frying it and then trying to sell it to people. And then people actually buy it to eat it. That is the true sign of the decline of the human race.”
“We retell our favorite stories. That's what we've done since we were sitting around campfires. It's a part of the human spirit. It doesn't have to be negative to creativity. It can be completely opposite. That's how you can break new ground: by rethinking something that's already been done.”
“My father is American and deserted the Vietnam War.”
“Sometimes if you start a relationship when you're young, you're not as fully developed as a person. You need a relationship that lets you develop in different ways. You need to bounce off different people.”
“I think that in Sweden and a lot of European countries, there's this whole mythology of the wounded artist: that you can't really do any great art unless you're suffering.”