Joel Kinnaman Quotes

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 am always searching for something different or something fresh, something hasn't been done. But the truth is, at the end of the day, we're all sort of retelling something. We're doing a version of something that's already been done.

Remakes are awesome, especially when it honors yet adds a new component or dimension to the original. But truthfully, we have so many stories, lives and subjects to explore that I'd love to keep pushing towards new knowledge.

Tradition can, to be sure, participate in a creation, but it can no longer be creative itself.

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

If we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it.

Read the folklore masters. Go to galleries. Walk in the woods. That's what you need to be an artist or storyteller.

As a film enthusiast and a lover of stories, I have read biblical stories and I've seen biblical films with the same zeal as I have read and seen my own country's stories. Most of the time, the creator doesn't know where he gets his inspiration from.

I have no problems with remakes, and I think it's interesting. I mean, coming from the theater, we've been remaking 'Hamlet' for a hundred years, so it's no problem to me at all. A good story can be told in many different ways in different places; I just think it's interesting.

A little bit of one story joins onto an idea from another, and hey presto, . . . not old tales but new ones. Nothing comes from nothing.

Assimilate all you can from tradition and then say things in your own way.

I keep on having ideas and developments. Some happen and some don't, but I still always have a way of telling a story.

Humanity's legacy of stories and storytelling is the most precious we have. All wisdom is in our stories and songs. A story is how we construct our experiences.

I like the dynamism and the joy cabare creates. I have always taken my job very seriously, but have always liked to have fun, to play. I like tradition and classicism but I have always liked to mix it up, even if it shocks at times.

No story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old.

Everything has already been done. every story has been told every scene has been shot. it’s our job to do it one better.

They say a story loses something with each telling.

My goal... not to go back to Rembrandt... but to bring the great tradition and whatever is great about it, up to date.

Tradition lives because young people come along who catch its romance and add new glories to it.

Everything in the world was about creativity: belief and creation. Storytelling was the essence of both.

We're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are.

Drawing is the poet's written line, set down to see if there be a story worth telling, a truth worth revealing.

Nothing comes from nothing, Thieflet; no story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old--it is the new combinations that make them new.

A lot of people believe that you don't need to know the history and that creates newness. I disagree: we should always be informed and then destroy it.

We forget old stories, but those stories remain the same.