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 But I notice that there is a lack of darkness in my movies and I don`t know where that comes from. It was important on The Shipping News to have my house far enough away from each location so I had this time in the morning to think about my shots and still remain open to surprises once I got to the set.
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I love involving actors at all levels - and they have to know that I want to hear their contributions, with dialogue, with story suggestions, with script changes, whatever.
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I always try to preserve my cinematographic style, even while I work in the US. I wish to always be European.
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You have to shake off and do the things you need to do to be true to the novel - mainly depart from it, and re-invent, and compress.
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My key interest in choosing scripts is character-driven stories, because there are so many stories that sacrifice character for plot.
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I was always attracted by the European way of life, but I am deeply Swedish.
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I can`t go back and label myself as an outcast because I was a pretty well-adjusted kid, but I can certainly relate to the feeling of being an outsider.
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I think I avoid stepping into sentimentality by trying to be as truthful as possible with performances.
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My father was an amateur filmmaker who shot 8mm color documentaries.
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I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.
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I imagined that it might be awkward to talk to your wife about her performance, so going into it I was a little nervous. But doing it was actually a wonderfully inspiring experience.
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I got to work with my wife, Lena Olin, for the first time, which was great. I thought it might be difficult in some way to talk to one`s wife in a different way but it was so not forced.
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I`m on this diet where you`re supposed to eat only fish and meat.
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It`s getting more and more difficult to define the nationality of a film because the financing and participants come from all over the world.
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I always need a couple of highlights to really spark the passion for a project.
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I discovered the 7th art at home when I was kid, through Charlie Chaplin`s movies and those of my father who shot documentaries. He was my biggest influence. So I took his camera and started shooting.
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I am always more interested in performance and character depiction, and my direction says as much.
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It`s just, for me, the natural standard: a woman should be able to decide over her own body.
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A film that is bleached tends to have a more realistic quality.
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I love improvising.
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My films do have characters who have trouble escaping the world around them.
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My father would tell anyone who would listen that this dentist thing he was doing was not his passion; cinematography was.
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Kevin, as the whole cast is, just wonderful people and great people, and people who are attracted to this kind of material and accepting the idea of going to Newfoundland and knowing the kind of lack of amenities.
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To see my wife getting inspired from my notes and thoughts, going in the direction I wanted, and have her surprise me with wonderful choices was a real treat.
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I feel the need to work with my wife, Lena Olin, again.
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I made all their videos, apart from the last two, so if you ever see an Abba video on TV then it`s my stuff.
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ABBA: The Movie; I got a lot of grief for working on that.
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But now I wish I could back to Stockholm to make international films there.
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I love mixing amateurs and professionals.
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The cider house rules are the metaphor for those rules that you feel you have to oppose because you feel they don`t make sense to you.
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Many of the comedies I had made in Sweden were slightly based on semi-autobiographical experiences, so adapting novels was a very different experience.
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Cinema has become a global economy, totally international.
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Trivia
Son Johan (born 1976) with ex-wife Malou Hallström.
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He and Lena Olin moved to the US permanently in 1995. They reside in Bedford, New York.
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He and Lena Olin are the first Swedish Oscar-nominated married couple.
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Has directed 4 actors to Oscar nominations: Michael Caine, Juliette Binoche, Leonardo DiCaprio and Judi Dench. Caine won for supporting actor honors for his low-key portrayal of a simple-hearted abortionist who runs a Maine orphanage and dies of accidental ether overdose in The Cider House Rules (1999).
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Swedish author [Astrid Lindgren] told him when he was about to direct "Barnen i Bullerbyn", based on her novel, that: "I will try not to like you, because all the directors I like end up dead." She referred to Tage Danielsson and Olle Hellbom.
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He and actress Lena Olin have a daughter, Tora, born in 1995. Singer Tommy Körberg is her godfather.
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Has (since 1999) frequently worked with cinematographer Oliver Stapleton
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Brother-in-law of Mats Olin.
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Stepfather of Lena Olin's son F. Auguste Rahmberg.
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He and his wife Lena Olin were both born in Stockholm.
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