- "Din fägring mig lockar, jag har dig så kär, jag tar dig med våld, om ej villig du är." - Min far, min far, han hårt i mig tar, älvkungen gjort mig så illa, far!

Vem rider så sent i stormens dån? En fader det är med sin späde son. Och gossen har det så gott på hans arm: den känns så fast, och hans famn är varm.

Min son, varför döljer du rädd din syn - Älvkungen, far, där i skogens bryn, älvkungen med krona och släp du väl ser? - Ett töcken, min son, och intet mer!

"Du väna barn, kom, följ mig åt! Av mig får du lära mång lek och låt. Av brokiga blommor står stranden full, min moder skall klä dig i skrudar av gull."

- Min far, min far, du hör väl ändå, vad älvakungen lovar mig få? - Var lugn, var lugn, min älskade pilt! i vissna löven susar det milt.

"Kom, fagra gosse, kom följ mig blott! Mina döttrar vårda dig ömt och gott. Mina döttrar, de svinga i ring var natt och vagga och söva dig in min skatt."

- Min far, min far, du ser då väl nog älvkungens döttrar i dyster skog? - Min son, min son, nu ser jag det gott: de gamla pilar skymta så grått.

Sin häst han rysande sporrar i hast och håller det kvidande barnet fast. Sin gård omsider når han med nöd. Då låg i hans armar gossen död.

Once you feel loved by the universe, you're already accepted, and you're not really concerned about offending people.

A child from the age of 2 or 3 absorbs what is in the environment and what generates hatred for anyone perceived to be different.

We certainly employ a lot of immigrants at Fox... and we do not take any consistent anti-immigrant line.

Always changing genres, making very different films is a good idea. It's a way of making yourself feel vulnerable again, getting back to that innocence. As is working within a circumspect budget.

For me, the past is dead. Can't go back.

There are many businesses that are born and die. A university is supposed to live forever.

The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.

I don't know if it's that the scripts are evolving or just that I'm getting older, but the characters become more interesting as you get older because you've lived more life at different stages. You've loved; you've lost; you have more of that journey.

The New Year begins in a snow storm of white vows

Candidly, I believe most corporations actually don't mind big government.

I'm no economist. I don't even play one on TV. I'm just a husband, a father, a taxpayer.

I love doing impressions.

You can go through life and actually speak your mind and do it in an articulate fashion and with a really intelligent point of view.

The desert does not mean the absence of men it means the presence of God.

Fat is your friend. The brain thrives on a fat-rich, low-carbohydrate diet.

Nude nail polish wins hands down over intricate nail art.

Hacking is exploiting security controls either in a technical, physical or a human-based element.

Personally, I really enjoy sci-fi. I watch it, I read comic books, and I play video games. I love this kind of world, so to be able to work in it is a dream. I enjoy it.

There's nothing in Chinese culture that is an equivalent of the geisha. It's so different, so special to Japan.

There's that rule, don't work with kids and animals. There's a reason for that!

It's different being a director. I suppose, especially if it's a story you've written and you feel compelled to tell, in some ways it's a lot easier than acting because you're orchestrating the piece. As an actor, sometimes you're trying to second-guess what people want.

Every two or three years I knock off for a while. That way I'm constantly the new girl in the whorehouse.

The truth is that sometimes art may not exactly reflect one's personal politics, but the story, the drama, the thing you're trying to say, might want to go in a certain direction, and while it may seem like it has resonance with things that are happening topically, you kind of want the world you're creating to have its own internal logic.

Nothing is more dreadful in life than the profound thought that death may only greet you with eternal nothingness.