A biography for Johan Renckhasn’t been written yet.
“I don't like fun stuff.”
“They say don't meet your heroes, but when it comes to Bowie, he truly is the most brilliant person I've ever met.”
“The first time I went behind the camera was in 1993. I felt, 'This is my thing,' and I knew that someday I'd make a feature.”
“I grew up all over the world. My dad was a doctor but not a career-type doctor. He was very curious, so he took the whole family and moved to Miami in the '70s, and we lived there for a couple of years. Then we continued like that and lived in various places around the world.”
“I like dark, hopeless, beautiful tragedies.”
“Art is never finished. It is only abandoned.”
“I'm very impatient, and I'm very curious.”
“I grew up all over the world, including countries such as Sweden, Norway, U.S.A., and Kuwait.”
“I've never been one to talk analytically about a music video or whatever I do.”
“All my close friends are non-conformist. To say 'misfits' sounds bad, but there is something positive about being a little on the outside - it gives you an interesting perspective on things - and I think that's something Robyn and I share.”
“I played in bands very very young. I painted; I did photography, all kinds of things.”
“Gothenburg is the Baltimore or Liverpool or Marseille of Sweden - plagued by the death of wharfs and other industries, and with complex segregation of the populace from southern Europe, which once brought in a labor force that suddenly found itself living in remote projects without jobs.”
“I like being out on a limb and not know what we're doing and why: just deal with it, the mayhem, you know?”
“I wish I had been born 20 years earlier, so I could have been in the movie business in the 1970s.”
“In many ways, shooting my first feature was more difficult than I had thought it would be, but it was still the most rewarding experience I have ever had.”
“If I feel the labor and the gruesome process, that helps me appreciate the art.”
“Brits are very, very expressive, whereas the Soviet and Eastern European way is much more stern, stone-faced. Vladimir Putin-esque in some way.”
“I think for something to be beautiful, it has to have some darkness in it; otherwise, it's just pretty. And pretty does not interest me at all.”
“In the early 1990s, I was signed as a singer to the same label as Robyn. She was in her early teens, and I was in my twenties, so we didn't hang out, but our paths crossed so many times that we slowly got to know each other and became friends.”
“I'm Swedish. Sweden is known for its melancholia.”