Latest Liv Ullmann Quotes from Interviews

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• There is a difference between film and digital. Because digital, you know, it's perfect and whatever. But with film, you get depth. You get subject.

  Liv Ullmann

  Differences, Perfect, Depth

  Source: www.themarysue.com

• Yeah, unfortunately [ films like Miss Julie are a dying breed]. And that is sad, because we need these. Like we need books, we need classical music, we need ballet, we need opera, to remind us really of who we are and why we are, and we need in movie houses - even to be in a movie - where you sit and see not only excitement and man-hero, woman-hero, you need quietly, just like that Hawking movie we talked about, to know how people overcome.

  Liv Ullmann

  Book, Hero, Men

  Source: www.themarysue.com

• Film is wonderful as opposed to theater, because it will always live there, and they will always be seen.

  Liv Ullmann

  Wonderful, Film, Theater

  Source: www.themarysue.com

• Colin [Farrell] I talked to several times on the phone, and I said, remember, we have only twenty-five days of doing the movie [Miss Julie], so you must know some of your text. I was a little un-feminist, I didn't want to say [bossy voice] "learn your text!" But when he came, he knew all his text.

  Liv Ullmann

  Phones, Voice, Feminist

  Source: www.themarysue.com

• I had the advantage, that I know Swedish. So I had the Swedish book and I had a lot of English translations, and German translations, and I did everything to make the best English translation of August Strindberg's Miss Julie I could. And then, there I went. "Oh! I think she's thinking this, but I think she should say it!" And so on. It's wonderful to do that.

  Liv Ullmann

  Book, Thinking, August

  "The Mary Sue Interview: Liv Ullmann On Miss Julie, Feminism, And Her Half-Century-Long Career". Interview With Carolyn Cox, www.themarysue.com. December 5, 2014.

• August Strindberg gave me the opportunity to have this incredible story [Miss Julie ], about the class system, about unfairness in life, but also this story about man and woman. What I wanted, because he gave me the freedom, to give her a voice that I missed a little in her.

  Liv Ullmann

  Opportunity, Men, August

  Source: www.themarysue.com

• We are equal human beings, and we were born with evil and anger and misunderstanding of what a man is, and so we are as needy and wanting to be part of him, as he, obviously, was needing and wanting to be part of us. And that's why I've really taken the freedom, because it's an adaptation, to give her a voice.

  Liv Ullmann

  Taken, Men, Voice

  Source: www.themarysue.com

• I can't expect people to decide that they will change with me, so I can see why I'm on the old side.

  Liv Ullmann

  People, Sides, I Can

  Source: www.themarysue.com

• I realize that we've come to a different way of showing movies. But I'm still with the old ways, and I can't change.

  Liv Ullmann

  Different, Way, Realizing

  Source: www.themarysue.com

• You see that a lot in movies, and today you see it more in movies that are made, because I feel more movies are made towards groups than towards individuals, and they're made more for mass media than for sitting in a movie house allowing it to happen.

  Liv Ullmann

  Media, House, Groups

  "The Mary Sue Interview: Liv Ullmann On Miss Julie, Feminism, And Her Half-Century-Long Career". Interview With Carolyn Cox, www.themarysue.com. December 5, 2014.

• We are different. We are equal in every way but our voices are important to each other and our need to want to listen to each other and try to understand, because sometimes we are so difficult to understand. Men to understand us, and we to understand men. And we don't. We don't connect the way we should.

  Liv Ullmann

  Men, Voice, Important

  Source: www.themarysue.com

• I consider myself a realist who wants to stand up for women's voices, not when they try to be the same, but when they stand up for who we are and what we see and how important it is that our voice is heard.

  Liv Ullmann

  Voice, Important, Trying

  Source: www.themarysue.com

• We need feminist voices today, you know. In my time, we had incredible feminist voices and I'm sure we have it today, too, but in all the massive outlets, maybe the one or two or three voices are somehow disappearing.

  Liv Ullmann

  Two, Voice, Feminist

  Source: www.themarysue.com

• The age, you know. A man can be wiser and wiser, and a woman is older and older.

  Liv Ullmann

  Men, Age, Wiser

  Source: www.themarysue.com

• It is tough to be a woman. Also as an actor, but more so as a director. And even more today, when distributors and producers are looking at different kinds of films and maybe not necessarily what a woman would want to do.

  Liv Ullmann

  Directors, Different, Actors

  Source: www.themarysue.com

• I'm maybe not so much an exception, maybe because I've lived so long that more is coming, more is there.

  Liv Ullmann

  Long, Exception

  Source: www.themarysue.com