Stellan Skarsgard Quotes

As an actor, I'm always interested in my characters getting into trouble, because conflict is, you know, the great determiner of someone's mettle.

I like to play characters that get to do it all - to have a bit of comedy here and a bit of pathos here and a bit of suspense here, that's what's fun.

The roles I'm interested in or have been interested in, you know, it's going to get down to conflict. Drama is conflict - conflict of interests.

I love challenging films, really. I'd prefer to do some gritty, challenging roles. That would be awesome and really fun.

I like doing character movies. I like doing movies about personal situations; that's what I love about dealing with things.

I just like playing interesting, complex, complicated characters. I like films that also have an element of humor.

The amazing thing with a soap is every day you're challenged, the amount of storylines we go through, the amount of emotions you get to play is really challenging.

I love playing different and challenging characters on screen, and Newton is one such role. But I'm someone who doesn't think so much about what will happen next.

I never studied anything about film technique in school. Eventually, I realized that cinema and theater are not so different: from the gut to the heart to the head of a character is the same journey for both.

I told him that I can play it if he wanted to write it, and I would be willing to try and go there emotionally. I did not know as an actress if I would be able to get there, because when you feel really deep emotions or pain, you don't want to go back there.

Movies are full of leading men, most of whom aren't working. It's much harder to find a good villain.

I made mistakes in drama. I thought drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries.

If you know exactly what your character knows, it's a drama.

For me really good acting is about subtext.

I like to play very raw characters, characters who have a degree of vulnerability and passion about what they're doing.

I want to keep doing different things. I'd like to do a more personal, dramatic movie next, I think. But as long as it's about characters and good writing and good parts for actors, that's what's important.

It was my first straight dramatic role, and the most adult, intelligent one I have ever played.

I like drama. My first movie that I did, 'Soul Survivors', was a drama, and I'm just drawn to that; that's sort of my forte.

We like drama. Even in our comedy, we like drama.

I seem to gravitate toward the dark side of things when it comes to directing. I love action, but I love the drama as well.

I think it's fair to say I'm attracted to playing characters who are rather intense.

My roles don't centre around drugs at all! Shadiness is different - it's drama. We're making movies! You've gotta have conflict.

Drama is action, sir, action and not confounded philosophy.

Drama and comedy, to me, are all about being surprising, coherent, and true, all at once.

I just love drama. I love the idea of exploring relationships, whatever they may be. That's fun for me.