People who would go to an arthouse cinema and watch a Swedish movie and read subtitles... it's a small percentage.

The similarity between the big directors I've worked with is that they allow the writer to find a way of doing what they want done without saying 'do it this way.' They describe what they want, then letting the writer figure out a way to do it.

The select group of people who do make realistic cinema, who do make cinema perhaps a little more acceptable to the Western audience, is a very small percentage.

I want to be in the small percentage of women who don't settle for conventional roles.

I had never read a word, nor seen a movie. I had to immerse and educate myself. But the advantage is I'm sort of coming to the material very fresh, and I saw instantly how this is a story for the stage.

I don't watch trailers, I like to go into every movie fresh.