A biography for Stellan Skarsgardhasn’t been written yet.
“People don't want to read subtitles.”
“I'm not a signing or dancing man.”
“I wanted to get the opportunity to do what actresses do: play the inside of a person.”
“Even the most despicable person is still a human being.”
“From my second son Gustav, I bought one of his complaints for 200 kroner. He was complaining that he was a middle child - he wasn't the beloved first child, and he wasn't the cute little youngest child. So I said, can I use that same wording in a film? And he said yeah. So I bought it from him.”
“My preparation for roles are less about the character's profession than who they are, what their dreams are, and in what way are they childish.”
“I am not only lucky to be an actor, but I am lucky to be one of the most privileged actors in the world because I can do all kinds of films and genres and everything.”
“The Sermon on the Mount is a very nice piece about being good, but most of the Bible is a very revengeful, childish, brutal God.”
“I think I was 13 years old when my father put in my hands 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold.' It was the first real adult book I ever read, and it opened a new world.”
“When you have kids, you see what's important.”
“I did a guest appearance on 'Entourage.' That was horrible, because I'm used to analysing the characters, working with all the details... and they said, 'No no no, walk and talk, walk and talk! It's energy energy energy!' - so it didn't quite suit me.”
“I don't know - personally, I don't watch many films where the violence itself is the main entertainment, because I find them boring.”
“I think Dan Brown is a terribly bad writer, but he has cliff-hangers after every chapter which makes you continue reading.”
“The only respect you should have is the one you earn.”
“How many big American films do you see where the heroine has no vanity whatsoever?”
“When you work with someone you don't quite know, you have to figure the director out, and you can come up with ideas that are counter-productive.”
“All directors have their strengths and weaknesses, as all actors have, and all artists. What you try to do is complete the relationship and take care of the stuff that the director won't take care of.”
“I mean... mankind has for hundreds of years known that torture is not a very smart way to get information. It's horrible that we're going back to medieval times.”
“The core to what makes Fincher really interesting - all the technique and all that, that is not in the center even if it's a big big part - what is in the center is the characters, and he really is interested in that.”
“Maybe there is something specifically Scandinavian that comes out of the long, dark winters - you have to learn to laugh at misery, in a way.”