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I would say that the majority of the people I work with are Swedish, very unknown producers and writers but so talented.

— Zara Larsson

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Whenever I travel anywhere, I'm constantly asked if I'm Swedish. It's the burden of most Norwegians. The Swedes have just got a better publicity agent, I think.

— Christopher Heyerdahl

Thanks to the success of Henning Mankell and Peter Hoeg, there wasn't the same stigma attached to writing genre thrillers in Scandinavia as there was in many other cultures. Quite the opposite, in fact.

— Jo Nesbo

I'm definitely more influenced by European writers than I am by American writers, there's no doubt about that.

— Anne Rice

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

— Baltasar Kormakur

I think one thing with Sweden is that in some way the Swedish society is a very good society, almost perfect on the surface. That is something that makes the writers forced to see what is underneath the surface, because it's always something underneath the surface, of course.

— Alexander Ahndoril

In Sweden, only exceptional actresses get major film parts.

— Maud Adams

Do we have good writers, producers and actors in the U.K.? Yes we do.

— Eric Fellner

✗Opposing Perspectives

Norwegian kids, they grow up well educated in film. So they have a lot of good directors there.

— Stellan Skarsgard

Sweden is a small country, and a Swedish writer can barely make a living as an author. We were able to quit our jobs as journalists only after we had been translated into, among others, German.

— Maj Sjowall

People who would go to an arthouse cinema and watch a Swedish movie and read subtitles... it's a small percentage.

— Steven Zaillian