Machiavelli had some cold tricks for people who wanted to be demagogues and wanted to take over the world.
II know a little about Greek mythology. It’s not that far away from the Nordic mythology.
I like to stay home with my family.
Actors are very good at not revealing anything, so they’re safe.
Sometimes we misunderstand what films can do. We just throw a whole book in there, with people just talking, talking, and talking. The picture can tell, the frame can tell.
I’m a big fan of film for one reason: because it is visual.
The physicality of any character is always split up into fast, slow, high energy, low energy, what kind of personality he has. So that’s where the physicality comes in. And flying through the air is just something you have to do if they ask you.
I have an enormous metabolism, so I’m lucky.
If you spend a week at a casino you will very easily see that people have a certain way of behaving in a casino.
I’m not the kind of actor who runs around and insists on being called Stravinsky by everybody, and my family has to call me Igor. I’m not that kind of actor. I think that’s pretentious.
Sometimes you have a period piece where you have to research around it but, if the writers have done their homework well enough, the information is all in the script.
If you’re not bruised up, then you’re not doing an action film in a real way.
Once you do one bad guy, usually all you get offered is bad guys.
Everybody wants a big crowd. You get amazed sometimes with certain things that millions of people are watching and you go, “Serious?! Really?!” And then, there are things that you really, really enjoy and not a lot of people are watching. It’s very, very hard to predict how it works.
I’m in a very lucky position. You have to remember that 95 percent of all actors aren’t working. I’m actually able to go to France and work. It’s a situation I couldn’t have dreamt up.
I’ve always been extremely physical.
I tend not to have any references to anything. I just jump into the script in front of me. If you reference too much, you have no idea if the performances are right.
I’m not looking for a challenge, necessarily. I’m looking to make a really great film.
When you do a TV show, there’s always the fear that it will become tired and you’ll know exactly what’s going to happen.
Danish film is spreading in a fantastic way.
I became a dancer late and an actor late.