Nikolaj Coster-Waldau Quotes

I always loved watching movies because I loved what certain moments inside of films did to me.

'Premam' moved me; it was almost like seeing life play out on screen.

I really love 'Bicycle Thief.' That just reminds me of my relationship with my father.

A film should be an experience. You should feel something. It should motivate you to feel something.

'Little Miss Sunshine' was really important to me.

I remember when I saw 'The Matrix' when I was 13, I saw it in the theaters, and I was so blown away by it. It was one of the most memorable experiences I definitely ever had in the theater.

I think the thing that is meaningful is when I can tell that someone's been affected by the movie or by anything I made.

'Virgin Suicides' was such a big movie to me as a teenage girl. It blew me away.

'Scarface,' I remember going to see that with my father. We didn't know what to expect; we did not know what to expect. I was a kid, and my father took me, and we didn't leave. It was so disturbing, but we loved it.

I have kind of a funny relationship with movies. I don't have to see the whole movie to get an impression of it or to let it have an influence on me.

When I watch a film, I watch it as an audience instead of thinking as an actor or an intellectual. I see whether it made me laugh, get involved or shocked me at certain points. Something has to stir inside me.

Some movies are the kind you take home with you at the end of the day, and some, you can let go.

I really felt good after working in a film like 'Piku,' as many people could relate to my character. I got letters from my fans telling me how my character resembles to their grandparents.

You find movies when you need them. They may not always be the best films, but they speak to you.

I'm not sure it's affection for Australian or New Zealand films or not. I think it's just that there's something about 'Wilderpeople' that has really struck a chord.

I saw 'Birth' at the Sundance Film Festival with a thousand other strangers, and I couldn't believe that was me in the film. I didn't recognize myself.

I believe that 'The Artist' is the kind of movie you see and you don't forget. I know it's going to stay with me.

As a teen, 'Thunder Road' was always in my head.

My discovery of Tarkovsky's first film was like a miracle. Suddenly, I found myself standing at the door of a room the keys of which had, until then, never been given to me. It was a room I had always wanted to enter and where he was moving freely and fully at ease.

In my entire career, I've never cried, consistently, through a movie, ever.

It was probably 10 at night when I started to read Donnie Darko. I get in bed and read the first page, and I go, "Hmmm. That's interesting." Second page, "Wow." By the fourth page, my heart started to beat, and I knew. It makes me cry, because I knew I had found a classic film. You just know when you get certain material.

When she listened to songs that she loved on the radio, something stirred inside her. A liquid ache spread under her skin, and she walked out of the world like a witch.

In growing up, I was a child of the movies. I went to the movies every given opportunity, and that's pretty much what has informed a lot of my choices.

For me a film is at its best when you can start filling in the story with your own life experience.

I remember seeing Stand by Me, when I was around 12, and just feeling like, "This is so refreshing to see kids swear and smoke cigarettes like my friends." It just felt much more real than the Sesame Street version of childhood that I'd been spoon-fed.