Max von Sydow Quotes
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France is, for me, the country of happiness.
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Playing Christ, I began to feel shut away from the world. A newspaper became one of my biggest luxuries. I noticed that some of my close friends began treating me with reverence.
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I remember those days with Bergman with great nostalgia. We were aware that the films were going to be quite important, and the work felt meaningful.
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In this country, you have movie actors and theatre actors and television actors.
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Most screenplays I receive are boring, and some are straight-out bad.
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Awards are lovely and always welcome.
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Nobody told me there was any idea for a sequel to 'The Exorcist.' But my agent called me to tell me they were going to do it, and there was a part for me. I said, 'But I died in the first film.' 'Well,' he told me, 'this is from the early days of Father Merrin's life.' I told him I just didn't want to do it again.
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There are casting directors with lots of imagination, but also some with not as much imagination.
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Spielberg knows his craft so well, he can also improvise, and that is a lot of fun.
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I could never learn to be totally fluent in any other language.
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I think English is a fantastic, rich and musical language, but of course your mother tongue is the most important for an actor.
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I don't believe in devils. Indifference and misunderstandings can create evil situations. Most of the time, people who appear to be evil are really victims of evil deeds.
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The more I had to act like a saint, the more I felt like being a sinner.
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The offers I get are for grandfathers, uncles - and they often die very quickly in the script.
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New York is a fascinating city. I think it's a very inspiring city, but it's overpowering when you get older. It tires me now. But it's wonderful for young people - very inspiring and full of surprises and full of ideas.
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In a theater, the part is mine and I can control it as I want to. In the movies, I don't have direct contact, and I am fighting technical machinery.
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I would like to do 'King Lear.' But I would like to do it in Swedish.
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The idea of working with Steven Spielberg was very attractive. He's such a master. He knows the language of the camera and of filmmaking, which gives him a great freedom.
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Film work can be very interesting, but it also can be awfully boring because who creates the film? The actors? No. It is the director. It's his piece of work.
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Filming is repetition and many takes.
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You cannot study acting in books. Do it, do it, do it. And watch good actors. See what they are doing and how they are doing it. You have to practically participate, I think, in order to develop yourself.
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Unfortunately, not all stories end positively.
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I owe Mr. Bergman so much.
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Bergman was courageous in choosing people to do things that they themselves might not expect to play.