Lasse Hallstrom
Lasse Hallstrom
Lars Sven "Lasse" Hallströmis a Swedish film director and screenwriter. He first became known for directing almost all music videos by pop group ABBA, and subsequently became a feature film director. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director for My Life as a Dogand later for The Cider House Rules. His other celebrated directorial works include What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Chocolat, The Shipping News, and Salmon Fishing in the Yemen...
NationalitySwedish
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth2 June 1946
CountrySweden
Its just, for me, the natural standard: a woman should be able to decide over her own body.
I love mixing amateurs and professionals.
If you're striving for strong emotion and strong sentiment, and you're authentic with it and honest with it, then you're on the right side of the line. But if you step into sentimentality, there is a false move or a false tone to it.
It was important on The Shipping News to have my house far enough away from each location so I had this time in the morning to think about my shots and still remain open to surprises once I got to the set.
My father was an amateur filmmaker who shot 8mm color documentaries.
I'm on this diet where you're supposed to eat only fish and meat.
You could have, with organization, done interiors in a different place and done exteriors in Venice, but it would have felt much more staged, theatrical, and these are things that were against it coming alive.
The cider house rules are the metaphor for those rules that you feel you have to oppose because you feel they don't make sense to you.
I think it's doing important things like taking care of his baby and being a father. We miss him here, but we don't blame him for taking care of family.
It's definitely the best she's done since then, Casanova.
To see my wife getting inspired from my notes and thoughts, going in the direction I wanted, and have her surprise me with wonderful choices was a real treat.
I discovered the 7th art at home when I was kid, through Charlie Chaplin's movies and those of my father who shot documentaries. He was my biggest influence. So I took his camera and started shooting.
[Depp] has real ambitions, but he is deeply afraid of being considered pretentious.