I am always more interested in performance and character depiction, and my direction says as much.

I think I avoid stepping into sentimentality by trying to be as truthful as possible with performances.

But now I wish I could back to Stockholm to make international films there.

My films do have characters who have trouble escaping the world around them.

I grew up in a funeral home, born and raised, and everyone was always like, 'Well, what was that like?' and I was like, 'It was normal', because it's all I knew.

I had to quit ballet because it felt like a part of me was dying inside.

The American middle class always wants to be upper class and is scared to death of being lower class. It's a highly mobile group of people. They're not like the people that want to be shopkeepers forever, have always been shopkeepers and want always to be shopkeepers. These people mostly are insulted by being called middle class.

Sometimes I feel like I've forgotten how to be the mom after the death of my son.