Quotes

I'm interested in people's darker side, the ones that aren't easy and well balanced. The cracks.

We need more extreme movies in Sweden, personal projects that aren't necessarily made for a bigger audience. I think it creates a creative block to always have the audience as a goal.

I hate when you see a film and after one scene you know what's going to happen and you can predict the whole story. I hate that. I think it's very boring.

[on doing fight scenes in Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011)] I tried to do as much as they allowed me to do. You get bruised, and your body aches, and you hurt yourself, but that's kind of part of it. I am very self-critical, and I don't like to pretend.

[on how she got the role as Lisbeth Salander] At first, he(Niels Arden Oplev) said no, it may even have been that he thought I was too good-looking. I looked feminine and soft, maybe a bit too girlie, too cute. And of course, Lisbeth had to be more of a tomboy. I said, if you trust me, I'll do anything you want me to do to become her. And he finally agreed.