Joel Kinnaman
Have you seen these Japanese hospital droids, or humanoids, or whatever they call it? They've perfected the skin, and the skin looks so real. They have these motors between the eyes for when they smile. It's just mind-blowing.Collection: Smile
There's a lot of neuroscience now raising the question, 'Is all the intelligence in the human body in the brain?', and they're finding out that, no, it's not like that. The body has intelligence itself, and we're much more of an organic creature in that way.Collection: Intelligence
Being an actor in movies is a lot about the power of your imagination and making the circumstance real to you so the audience will feel that it's real.Collection: Imagination
I read a couple of books about neuroscience and the relationship between the mind and the body.Collection: Relationship
In Sweden, there's a lot of talk of gender equality. That discussion isn't as prevalent in the U.S. I feel that successful American women are tougher than Swedish women - they create their space.Collection: Equality
'The Killing' has a really great combination of qualities: Even though it's very sad and deals with mourning and grief, it's still exciting. It's about real people and it doesn't shy from the painful points of life.Collection: Sad
Moving in is almost a bigger step than getting married.
Nobody wants to be depressed - everybody's trying to feel better; when they strive and fail, it's all the more poignant.
We retell our favorite stories. That's what we've done since we were sitting around campfires. It's a part of the human spirit. It doesn't have to be negative to creativity. It can be completely opposite. That's how you can break new ground: by rethinking something that's already been done.
I loved 'The Artist.' I thought it was fantastic.
In most scripts, one or two characters have a lot of colors.
In philosophy, they talk a lot about humans being actual organic machines, and the idea of free will is something that we've made up. We actually don't have free will. We're acting according to our programming as organic mechanisms.
I think I'm a boxer, but then when I get hurt, I'll start scrapping.
I'm a crybaby.
It's very nice to be in a show where your vanity is completely out of the picture.
I think 'The Wire' is my all-time favorite TV show. It's so brilliant, the way it critiques society, and how it handles that everybody who gets power loses their moral code and stops going to the root of the problem and just tries to maintain their own power.
I love 'Breaking Bad.' I'd watch Bryan Cranston read the phone book, for days.
I'm battling with keeping my narcissism at bay as it is, so Twitter was not a good thing for that.
Mid-range to low-budget movies have to have a name in the lead to get financing for it.
Sometimes if you start a relationship when you're young, you're not as fully developed as a person. You need a relationship that lets you develop in different ways. You need to bounce off different people.
I'm a pretty light and light-spirited person; I'm not a depressed guy.
I think that in Sweden and a lot of European countries, there's this whole mythology of the wounded artist: that you can't really do any great art unless you're suffering.
I'm not a method actor per se, but if I'm playing a character that, at its core of its persona, has experiences I don't have, I try to search out and get firsthand experiences of similar sorts so I have something to fantasize about.
When it's a moral grey zone, the audience has to think about what they feel and what they think is right or wrong. You want to affect your audience and make them think.
What I enjoy most with acting is when it's a good scene with one or two other actors, and you feel a strong connection, and you don't know how you're going to respond, and everybody is listening to each other and getting affected by each other, and even though you've rehearsed it many times, it feels like it's happening right now.
It's so scary to go on stage. I used to throw up before I went on stage, every time.
A big moment for me was when I did a play that was a new adaptation of Dostojevskij's 'Crime and Punishment,' and I played Raskolnikov. It was actually the first thing I did when I got out of acting school.
We are all a unique person with everyone we meet.
We have nobility in Sweden, and it comes from the old British aristocracy.
All of our colleges are free in Sweden, but this acting program is the second most expensive education for the government. It's difficult to get in. There are around 1,500 applicants, and 10-12 applicants are accepted each year. I was accepted, and I studied there for five years.
An amateur can be great in front of the camera, but you need an education to get on stage where you have full control as an actor.
I'm a bit like a chameleon with my accent.
I'm happy that people have watched and appreciated my work. That's why I'm doing it.
It's hard to act with just your jaw.
If I play a villain, I try to find his lightness and his good side. And if I play a hero or a good guy, I'll try to find his darkness or his flaws. Because I don't believe in good and evil. I believe in grays.
My father is American and deserted the Vietnam War.
We remake 'Hamlet' all the time. That's sort of what we do, humans.
I speak English with my dad and Swedish with my mom; it's quite schizophrenic.
I miss the Swedish women on the first day of spring cause they all just blossom in the most incredible way.
I love 'Starship Troopers.' I've seen it ten times.
We're all a big hippie family so I got five sisters and a bunch of different mothers. Not really, but my sisters' mothers are all good friends with my mother. We're a big family, 25 people.
I always identified myself as non-Swedish. I was never discriminated against, because I looked Swedish and speak without an accent. But I had an outsider's perspective.
Swedes are a really humble and shy people in many ways, but I think it's pretty much the same as in the U.S. Little girls want to take photographs with me at lunch.
I went to high school in Texas for one year, my senior year. My parents wanted me to get out of Stockholm because I was running with the wrong crew. They wanted me to get back to my roots.
I usually have pretty good intuition on projects that I work on.
I hate pork rinds. I couldn't imagine how anybody would ever get the idea of taking skin from a pig and frying it and then trying to sell it to people. And then people actually buy it to eat it. That is the true sign of the decline of the human race.
I really want to live in New York. That's the city of my dreams.
I don't think there have been many alien movies where the actors have actually seen the aliens.
We don't know why we are here and the context of our role in the universe, and the thought of an infinite universe. It's something the human mind can't really grasp. It's statistically impossible that there's not life on other planets.
It's technically demanding to shoot in 3-D. It's an extra element. Also, just the size of the cameras. They look like these 'Transformers' monsters; they are incredibly big, many of them.