My performance is totally dependent on what the other actors are doing.
Some actors are what I call more like mirror actors, which means that they do a performance at home in front of the mirror, and then they go deliver it. I'm not that type.
We were working under very harsh conditions on 'Zero Kelvin.' We were up there in the Arctic, closer to the North Pole than to a hospital. Sometimes you had to sleep in small Arctic tents with guns to protect yourself from polar bears and stuff.
It's fun to play characters with a past, but it's also fun to play any role that is what I would call a 'pressure cooker' kind of character, where the lid is on, and it's left to simmer throughout the movie.
The difference between an experienced director and a new director is not as big as the difference between individual directors, the temperament they have, and the things they're interested in.
Some directors are interested in acting, and others are only interested in cranes and moving the camera.
You always have to figure out what the director is good at before you work with them; then you can fill in if need be.
Rupert Murdoch is in bed with Cameron. Of course they want to kill the BBC... anybody who is in the way.
I said yes to 'Nymphomaniac' before it was written.
Most of my acting in general is about what's going on in the head, and the lines are just something that comes out.
We have to know that the bad guys are not different from us in the world.
I did a Norwegian film called 'Insomnia' that was remade and that was a good remake by a good director, so I'm honoured.
I've been offered a lot of police series, but I'm very good at staying away from them. They're usually based on such a boring formula.
I wanted to get the opportunity to do what actresses do: play the inside of a person.
I grew up in a family where you were allowed to say anything; you were allowed to show weakness... I have no problems talking about anything, basically. But at the same time, I know I'm different than a woman.
I can say yes to some directors without even reading a script. But the first-time directors I've worked with, the scripts have not been perfect, but they had something that I liked.
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.
I don't know - personally, I don't watch many films where the violence itself is the main entertainment, because I find them boring.
The first time I saw Istvan Szabo's 'Mephisto,' I came out and I was in shock. I was shaking.
I'm almost sometimes too subtle in my acting.
