I’m on this diet where you’re supposed to eat only fish and meat.
My father was an amateur filmmaker who shot 8mm color documentaries.
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.
If you’re striving for strong emotion and strong sentiment, and you’re authentic with it and honest with it, then you’re on the right side of the line. But if you step into sentimentality, there is a false move or a false tone to it.
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.
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.
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.
To make a movie charming, you have to be playful on all levels and open to ideas, and you have to have an idea for how to do that within the confines of the shooting schedule and editing and all that.
I feel the need to work with my wife, Lena Olin, again.
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.
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.