“I like the fact that there was a European, first-time director. I’d known of him because I’m from Europe.”

It’s a good way of getting you into the zone for the scene.

Because I play the trumpet and sing. I’d like to incorporate that into a character.

You want to create something fresh, original, very unique.

I’d like to do a lead action role.

It seemed like a different story, with the horror elements.

In terms of what I’m looking for, I’d like to do a lead action role.

It has a very mystic energy which informs you as an actor.

It’s a significant question: should black people only adopt black children, and white people white children?

And then, with a European director and Norwegian actors speaking in Norwegian, it was going to be very interesting.

It’s one of the most beautiful places on this planet.

The only way I know how to deliver is to focus; some people can turn it on or off – I’d rather stay in character.

Those films that really speak to the primal fear that we, as human beings, have about the unknown have always intrigued me.

. It has to look real. That in itself becomes challenging because you have to learn it straight away.

So, whatever initial trepidation or fear I may have had was alleviated by those factors.

A lot of the moves are split legs, and twisting fast.

My father was a lorry driver, very rarely at home.

Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.

Habits eat good intentions for breakfast.

They ignore what is deep and true to a man’s heart, his real passions, and simply try to shape him up through various forms of pressure.

Whatever’s happening today, remember it is only ONE SCENE in a long movie. Don’t treat it like it’s the whole story. Keep writing the story.

What is reality? The answer Jesus gives to this question is: God and his kingdom. That is what you can count on and what you have to come to terms with.

But I was only a chaotic walker, nobody could stop me; even a totalitarian state was not able to control my daydreams, my poetic fascinations, the pattern of my walking.

Every male secretly wants sex with Brad Pitt.

Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.