- Discovers
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- Nov 07, 2020
You Quotes
Quotes that speak straight to you.
This collection gathers quotes framed around 'you' - from candid reflections on body image pressures passed down in families to observations about how humor can mask real vulnerability. Many touch on how what you know about yourself differs from how others perceive you.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
The winters are too long, and there's only one airline, so it's difficult to escape when you feel frustrated or claustrophobic. The audience for our films isn't very large, so it's difficult to support an industry. But, Iceland is beautiful. Sometimes it's hard to imagine living anywhere else.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to underground music studios. In the studios, I learned that you can make a movie without a permit.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you want to make a film abroad, you need producers and people who support you. You need a team that speaks your language.
- Financed
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- Nov 07, 2020
People talk about Hollywood as a myth, but in reality, when you make Icelandic movies and you want to get them distributed in the U.S., you're not really working with Hollywood. The movies I've been making, the first one I made, I made it with Working Title, but it was financed through Universal, so it became a Hollywood production.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was in Asia and people asked me about being considered sex symbol. I don't know if that's good or not, because where I come from, sex isn't something you're allowed to talk about.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the case of 'The Deep,' because of the people involved, the talent and the real lives of people who died, I wanted to make the most honest film I could. And sometimes that's the best way to go: Just make the best version of the film you can.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you make a film too American, it won't travel. It will have no life outside of its own country.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
I also like to follow nature's rhythm. In times or places, they have their own rhythm. So you cannot push it. So we must accept that as well. Wherever we're born at this time, we just live it.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Iceland, the weather is the biggest character you deal with every day. There's nothing more relevant in your life than what kind of weather it is.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The partner that you have is supposed to make you a better person, and when you're happy, you're a better person.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a big fan of movies that don't take themselves too seriously. You know you won't change the world, but have fun. Movies like 'Butch Cassidy' I enjoyed tremendously, but it didn't alter my opinion of the world.
- Cool
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you go in and do a cool, small character, it feels less like work and more like fun.
- Nov 07, 2020