I was not into sci-fi, science fiction, at all. I was into some of the old pirate films with Burt Lancaster and stuff. I liked them.

I know a little about Greek mythology. It's not that far away from the Nordic mythology.

Awards mean absolutely nothing if you don't get it. If you do get it, they're the best thing in the world.

If I do my very best, then the camera and the audience will follow me, and eventually they will somehow feel like I feel. I don't have to show it to them. I don't have to speak it out loud.

I do read some of the scripts from America and, even though the themes or subject of the film is very interesting, and some of the scenes are very interesting, there is a tendency that they have to explain everything. There will be no dilemma.

Denmark is a small place. We all know each other.

If I was doing 'The Hunt' constantly, I would get very old, very fast.

Before we made films about gangsters, everything was about the royal families. They contain so much drama.

I like to stay home with my family. But travel is good in a way. It makes you redefine each other each time you see each other. Also, it helps that I think my wife is the hottest woman in the world.

I was very energetic and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.

If people need to be informed by lines, then there's no reason why the actor is saying the line except for information for the audience; I think there's something wrong.

I haven't watched that much TV, to be honest. To be honest, I don't watch that many films anymore - partly because I don't have time; secondly, because I watch a lot of sports, and I love watching sports.

I always work with the tempo of the energy of the character, whether he's fast or slow, or heavy or light.

I fancy myself at being pretty good at understanding a script and finding the weaknesses, and then making them more radical than they are. People tend to listen to me.

There's been no real reason to move to LA. The stuff I've done for America has been done in Europe anyway. We made a decision early on that we'd find our base and not shake the children's world as much as mine.

I try not to carry any character back home because that would be extremely frustrating for my family.

England and Denmark have a sense of irony and a darker sense of humour that you don't necessarily find in Germany and Sweden.

I did a TV show called 'Unit 1.' It wasn't a bad experience, but yes, the first season I didn't have a good time because I was coming from Nicolas Winding Refn films where the corners were sharp and radical, but now we had round corners.

TV is obviously so different from film: because it's a never-ending process, it keeps going; you keep receiving new pages.

I've never been specifically attached to westerns, but there are those I like - one of the best westerns I've seen is 'Unforgiven.' I think the genre has something extremely powerful that can allow them to talk about good and evil in a very straight way.

The whole Fannibal thing is predominantly something that happens in a world I don't know about, which is the Internet.

I've always been interested in strange foods, coming from all different places.

I have the strange ability to shut things out.

I vividly remember Charles Bronson's face in 'Chino.' The western genre is screaming for a face like that.