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I used to sail a lot in all kinds of weather, competing on small sailboats in the ocean. And I travel a lot in Iceland on horses every summer, through the wild areas where there's no inhabitants and there are volcanoes.

From Baltasar Kormakur

When I write and develop things myself, I might work for a while on a script from a book, and then I go back and read the book and go back into it to see if I lost something: is there something there?

From Baltasar Kormakur

I have no problems with remakes, and I think it's interesting. I mean, coming from the theater, we've been remaking 'Hamlet' for a hundred years, so it's no problem to me at all. A good story can be told in many different ways in different places; I just think it's interesting.

From Baltasar Kormakur

For me, the source material can come from anywhere. It can be a poem, it can be a dream, it can be a movie, as long as the end part of it is interesting - that's what it's about for me.

From Baltasar Kormakur

The thing about Iceland is that we are trapped there anyway, all of us. We have been trapped there for thousands of years.

From Baltasar Kormakur

I consider myself more a European director who is from Iceland than an Icelandic director.

From Baltasar Kormakur

Baltasar Kormakur

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