Lasse Hallstrom Quotes

• 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.

  Lasse Hallstrom

• 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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• 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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• My father was an amateur filmmaker who shot 8mm color documentaries.

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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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• 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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• It’s just, for me, the natural standard: a woman should be able to decide over her own body.

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• 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’m on this diet where you’re supposed to eat only fish and meat.

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• I was always attracted by the European way of life, but I am deeply Swedish.

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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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• I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.

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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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• I love mixing amateurs and professionals.

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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 love improvising.

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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 feel the need to work with my wife, Lena Olin, again.

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Lasse Hallstrom (30)

Birth:	2nd June, 1946
Nationality:	Swedish
Profession:	Director

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