I write about reconciliation, but not as a miracle, as a slow, gradual process of mutual discovery - discovering one another.
Making a movie is universal. Directing a movie is universal; it's a universal language.
Sometimes you have to do the things that scare you and that are outside of your comfort zone and challenge yourself.
That's what you want: you want projects that you fall in love with. I don't think you pick your projects; you fall in love with them.
You never have any idea where your movie's going to go when you're shooting - you're in this little bubble. Everything you care about is getting the next step right: getting the script right, finding the right actors, shooting it.
Filmmaking is about moments. In real life, things might take six months, a year, but [in filmmaking] you have to create the moment where it happened.
I've always loved films, and I always felt like a storyteller. I left Norway after high school and moved to Manhattan and went to film school in Manhattan. That's when I really found out that this was my calling and what I wanted to do.
Brit Marling smartest girl I've ever met. Hands down. Brilliant. Her story? She had a graduate degree from a top tier school and turned down a job with some big company. She went to LA, said she was going to be an actress. She wasn't getting auditions, so she started writing her own films.
Dads are awkward because they're older guys who aren't cool anymore and are figuring out who they are, and they often make bad choices in fashion and music.
Imagine if the United States, in its war against Hitler, had said to Stalin: we don't want your support until you make your country democratic.
It is not so much the United States that is trying to push the European Union in one direction or another, it is developing nations as a whole that are pushing the United States and Europe to open their markets a little more.