I did a crazy version of 'Romeo and Juliet' once, and I played Romeo.
Machiavelli had some cold tricks for people who wanted to be demagogues and wanted to take over the world.
I'm engaged to Hollywood. If there's something I find I have to do, I'll do it. Otherwise, I'll just stay home and have a vacation.
When I was a kid, I wasn't looking at the small-budget films myself. I was looking at 'James Bond' and all the major films, so I still have that energy. I still love those films.
If you spend a week at a casino you will very easily see that people have a certain way of behaving in a casino.
I don't want to be the stupid blond. I want to be an actor.
One thing I can say about the French language is that no one in the world loves their language as much as they do. It doesn't matter if you're close - it still sounds terrible to their ears.
Once in a while, when I'm out on the lawn, I'll jump around and do a couple of things. Here's a secret: The older you get, the more difficult it gets. The smallest little injury stays with you for so long. But that's how it goes, and it doesn't stop me. I'm always ready to do something that hurts a little!
I've never been a big fan of making telepathy to the audience. That would be too much a wink in the eye. That would make people around me fools, right?
I tend not to have any references to anything. I just jump into the script in front of me. If you reference too much, you have no idea if the performances are right.
In a way, we tried to make 'The Salvation' a contemporary film with contemporary emotions. At the same time, in the script, you get a feel that all the small talk is not a part of our universe. It's more precise talk.
The physicality of any character is always split up into fast, slow, high energy, low energy, what kind of personality he has. So that's where the physicality comes in. And flying through the air is just something you have to do if they ask you.
I will never be a fan of any kind of political correctness: I think it's instant death to creativity.
Sometimes you have a period piece where you have to research around it but, if the writers have done their homework well enough, the information is all in the script.
I can be intense in a lot of ways, but not the way you see the guy in 'The Salvation.'
I come from a culture where you don't divide it up to what you can do on TV and what you can do on film.
A solid family, as they say. They join me on location if they have a chance, but I can also be home three or four months doing nothing, so I probably see my kids more than people who work constantly all year long. If that changes, we'll have to have a family meeting.
I like to stay home with my family.
I have an enormous metabolism, so I'm lucky.
II know a little about Greek mythology. It's not that far away from the Nordic mythology.
