I don't know whether it's a Nordic thing, but men in Iceland are very locked-up, very quiet. They hardly ever express emotion.

I'm still blown away by how desolate Iceland can be, how deserted it is. It's very often like living on the moon.

I just love films and any time you get to see a film with a good story, no matter how much money you have for visual effects, if the story isn't good it won't be a good film.

Luckily enough, I read 'NOS4A2' about a year before I ever heard of the TV show, so I had read the book and absolutely loved the book.

I'd never been to Rhode Island before, I loved it there. Watching the leaves change color in the fall was just gorgeous. I loved it.

Some people just have a love for words and thinking about words that rhyme.

I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman.

Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.

Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.

Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.

Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved away.