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I was a horrible athlete.
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Athlete
Horrible
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I'm a great bum, and I'm a pretty good director.
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Bum
Good Director
Pretty Good
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I want to challenge my cinematography and my editing.
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Cinematography
Editing
Challenge
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When you're 16, the top of the world is directing a gangster movie.
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Gangster
Directing
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I have severe claustrophobia, and I panic if I'm more than six feet above ground.
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Panic
Severe
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For me, it's important that the script is good. Then a good director will want to make it.
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Good Me Important
Good Director
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I always loved when James Stewart did roles that were not so dialogue-based, like 'Vertigo.'
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Vertigo
James
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I have no idea how to start doing something that doesn't connect with me or my soul, somehow.
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Ideas
My Soul
Soul
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I come from the working-class area of Stockholm, and I grew up with Serbian and Chilean people.
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Stockholm
Working Class
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When I make a movie, I completely dive into it and I can't really take anything in at all, at that time.
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If you just storyboard something, you've already planned it, and you're stuck in the limitations of your imagination.
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Stuck
Limitations
Planned
Storyboard
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I think the movie industry is a hard industry, but it is not that hard to be allowed to do what you want if you work hard.
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Movie Industry
Work Hard Work Hard
Work Hard Want
Work Hard
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I grew up in different parts of Africa. I grew up in Mozambique and places like that. I've been in South Africa many times.
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South Africa
Different Parts
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All our forms are unique - movies, music and literature - and you have to leave the person who is doing it to do their best.
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Forms
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If the crew is hit by the situation that we're trying to portray, I think we get a real and a stronger moment with the camerawork and the actors.
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Crew
Stronger
Get A Real
Portray
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We've all done actions in our lives where we compromise what we believe in. And if we keep doing it, there's no way back, no pride to hold on to.
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Compromise
Pride
Actions
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If you create a movie that is only character driven, with a weak plot, then you - as a director, you have to make sure you keep pushing the tempo.
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Pushing
Tempo
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Gangster movies are the inheritor of the Greek tragedy: it's the only genre where the audience will be disappointed if there's not a tragic ending.
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Disappointed
Genre
Tragedy
Gangster
Ending
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Almost always, when we have fights in movies, they're done in these strange rooms where nothing gets broken. It's almost like they're in padded cells.
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Broken
Rooms
Movies Done Always
Padded
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Academically, I was never that interested. I skipped classes. My biggest dream was to have a coffee shop, but I had no idea how to get the money to do that.
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Coffee
No Idea
Academically
Biggest Dream
Classes
Shop
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Do we have the right to understand the world we live in? The right to all the information regarding why our governments are making the decisions that they are?
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Governments
Regarding
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Think about Medusa, with the snakes. If you shoot a movie in Europe, the financiers are three snakes, and they all have opinions. In Hollywood there are, like, 20 snakes.
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Financiers
Snakes
Opinions
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Creating stuff is hard. But, if that terrifies you, you will just be numb, and you better just stay at home and watch TV and do something else. Move into the woods and live with the trees.
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Numb
Woods
Just Be
Something Else
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I made this Swedish movie called 'Snabba Cash,' or 'Easy Money,' and it was shown at the Berlin Film Festival. A lot of American studios, agents, and people like that saw it there and liked it.
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Movie
Agents
Berlin
Cash
Easy
Film
Studios
Swedish
Money People American
Liked
Festival
Film Festival
Saw
Shown
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When I was asked to come over to the States, I thought to myself, 'What the Americans are very good at doing is creating stories with strong movement and plots that carry the movie as it goes along.'
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Good Myself Doing
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It must have been fascinating for Bono to have Johnny Cash do a cover of his song, and hear how he translates the words that he has used. And it would be fascinating to see a great director do his take on my work.
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Cash
Fascinating
Work Great Must
Bono
Cover
Great Director
Johnny
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If you don't feel a true passion through work, you can't do it. It's not possible for me. I've never done TV. I've never done commercials. I've never done anything for money. I can't do it. I wish I could. It would be easier.
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Wish
Would Be
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I looked at early movies with Robert Redford, and I like how Robert, even though he had that automatic charisma and was a very verbal person, he always played those more silent characters and played within the scene and never overacted.
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Charisma
Silent
Automatic
Movies Always Never
Robert
Robert Redford
Verbal
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I think it's always interesting to make sensational stories where, if these people don't make the right choice, it actually puts marks not just on their souls but also their bodies. That means that you can visualize existential questions.
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Existential
Sensational
Always People Choice
Marks
People Choice Always
Puts
Right Choice
Souls
Visualize
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Chileans have this rumor that they're great soccer players, but I stunk as a soccer player. I always had to hide my nationality when they were picking teams because, just by the look of me, they would think that I was a great soccer player.
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Nationality
Rumor
Soccer
Great Look Me
Hide
Picking
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When I was sixteen years old, I was sentenced to two years in prison; the Swedish government changed it, so I could go to a boarding school as part of a social programme. I was in this boarding school with some of the richest kids in Sweden.
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Changed
Prison
Sixteen
Sweden
Boarding
Boarding School
Programme
Richest
Sentenced
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I run a fast pace on my sets, man. I like the energy of the scene to be the energy on the set. I think it affects the actors, and I think it affects the crew. There's that sensation like you're really shooting it for real, like in a documentary.
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Crew
Pace
Shooting
Affects
Documentary
Sensation
Sets
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When we think back at our youth, we always remember the feeling of freedom... that you actually believe in the world. Even if it goes well for you in life, you can never attain that freedom in your imagination of what you think life could be. We are tainted.
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Attain
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I did two movies that were arthouse movies; they were critically successful but made no money at all... but after making those movies, I thought, 'I wouldn't watch my own movies when I was 16, and my buddies where I came from wouldn't watch my movies, because they were boring.'
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That's the place we're in right now: we think we have the capability to get every piece of information, and we don't. We don't know what's going on behind the closed curtain. If we want to say we live in a free democratic society, we should be able to find out whatever we want to.
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Capability
Democratic Society
Closed
Curtain
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In editing, you really face what the movie is. When you shoot it, you have this illusion that you're making the masterpieces that you're inspired by. But when you finally edit the movie, the movie is just a movie, so there is always a hint of disappointment, particularly when you see your first cut.
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I don't like having hierarchical structures. So, everybody knows that I'm the boss but, from that, I don't like people to walk on eggshells. I like people to be friendly and to feel loved. I think that kind of fits into creativity stronger. If people are scared, they are afraid to come up with ideas.
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People
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I really like to have a coffee shop next door and be able to smoke a cigarette. I'm a city person; I regard nature as something hostile and problematic. I do enjoy it when I get out there, but it is mostly against my will. It's a bit of an awkward thing to say - people really don't like it when you say that.
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Cities
Coffee
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It's really hard to get a coffee with someone. I have to call my agent, my agent calls their agent, their agent calls their manager, the manager calls back, the actor sends someone to the manager... then you get, 'Yeah, yeah, I'd love to have dinner at six,' and all I wanted was coffee! It can take, like, six days to get coffee.
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Agent
Calls
Manager
Sends
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I think a lot of directors nowadays come from the commercial world, which is about seduction, which has nothing to do with personal directing. If you are trying to seduce an actor he might like it but I can guarantee you that he'll hate it when you start shooting. They are looking for somebody who is like a compadre, their brother, or sister, who can tell them the honest truth and help them to become a better artist than they are right then.
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