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
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 getting more and more difficult to define the nationality of a film because the financing and participants come from all over the world.
I'm on this diet where you're supposed to eat only fish and meat.
I got to work with my wife, Lena Olin, for the first time, which was great. I thought it might be difficult in some way to talk to one's wife in a different way but it was so not forced.
I love involving actors at all levels - and they have to know that I want to hear their contributions, with dialogue, with story suggestions, with script changes, whatever.
I love mixing amateurs and professionals.
But I notice that there is a lack of darkness in my movies and I don't know where that comes from.
I always need a couple of highlights to really spark the passion for a project.
Many of the comedies I had made in Sweden were slightly based on semi-autobiographical experiences, so adapting novels was a very different experience.
You have to shake off and do the things you need to do to be true to the novel - mainly depart from it, and re-invent, and compress.