Words matter. These are the best Lasse Hallstrom Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
ABBA: The Movie; I got a lot of grief for working on that.
I was always attracted by the European way of life, but I am deeply Swedish.
I discovered the 7th art at home when I was kid, through Charlie Chaplin’s movies and those of my father who shot documentaries. He was my biggest influence. So I took his camera and started shooting.
I think I avoid stepping into sentimentality by trying to be as truthful as possible with performances.
My father was an amateur filmmaker who shot 8mm color documentaries.
I am always more interested in performance and character depiction, and my direction says as much.
I love mixing amateurs and professionals.
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.
I can’t go back and label myself as an outcast because I was a pretty well-adjusted kid, but I can certainly relate to the feeling of being an outsider.
Cinema has become a global economy, totally international.
My father would tell anyone who would listen that this dentist thing he was doing was not his passion; cinematography was.
But now I wish I could back to Stockholm to make international films there.
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.
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.
I feel the need to work with my wife, Lena Olin, again.
But I notice that there is a lack of darkness in my movies and I don’t know where that comes from.
My key interest in choosing scripts is character-driven stories, because there are so many stories that sacrifice character for plot.
