Joel Kinnaman Quotes
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I think for a lot of people that had seen me do 'Snabba Cash', after watching 'The Killing,' I think they got a sense that I could do different kinds of characters.
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In most scripts, one or two characters have a lot of colors.
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I don't think being a star has ever been part of the plan. But I always want to do really good work, even when I made career moves with projects that made more sense in sort of a career way than in an artistic way... like I did with 'The Darkest Hour.'
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Jose Padilha is a wonderful director.
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I like L.A., but it's just too many people in the same business everywhere you go. You lose perspective.
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We are all a unique person with everyone we meet.
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We retell our favorite stories. That's what we've done since we were sitting around campfires. It's a part of the human spirit. It doesn't have to be negative to creativity. It can be completely opposite. That's how you can break new ground: by rethinking something that's already been done.
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I usually have pretty good intuition on projects that I work on.
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I was a Swedish guy who listened to Too Short.
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Being an actor in movies is a lot about the power of your imagination and making the circumstance real to you so the audience will feel that it's real.
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I think I'm a boxer, but then when I get hurt, I'll start scrapping.
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I don't think there have been many alien movies where the actors have actually seen the aliens.
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The way I live my life or conduct myself when I have a problem is very different from many of the characters I play.
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I'm a pretty good chess player.
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I've learned to steer away from the wrong kind of woman for me.
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What we did wrong on 'RoboCop,' we just did something new and didn't really take into account what the fans really loved about the original.
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Sometimes if you start a relationship when you're young, you're not as fully developed as a person. You need a relationship that lets you develop in different ways. You need to bounce off different people.
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It's hard to act with just your jaw.
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The north of Sweden is very socialist and poor. They feel left out and despise Stockholm in many ways because Stockholm has become new liberals and much more Americanized.
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I really want to live in New York. That's the city of my dreams.
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It's technically demanding to shoot in 3-D. It's an extra element. Also, just the size of the cameras. They look like these 'Transformers' monsters; they are incredibly big, many of them.
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I'm a physical actor in that I start with a physical sketch of the character. I find it easier to find inspiration from the outside in. If I find the character's tensions and the way he carries himself or looks, that's going to affect how I talk. So that's how I start to create that person.
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I'm not a method actor per se, but if I'm playing a character that, at its core of its persona, has experiences I don't have, I try to search out and get firsthand experiences of similar sorts so I have something to fantasize about.
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I always look for good stories and good characters, and if they're placed in a whodunit, then I'm interested.