We will work on ways to digitally enhance Everest, matching it with Dolomites and Everest, but I’ll do everything physically first. If there’s no other way, then I’ll go to CGI. Baltasar Kormakur Read Quote
When ‘Iron Man’ came out, I said, ‘Oh – they are trying to have some fun.’ It was a relief because every superhero movie had become so damn serious. Some people love that, but for me, it’s a weird thing to watch. A man with a cape can have fun, but I won’t listen to a lecture from him. Baltasar Kormakur Read Quote
Sometimes those big bloated superhero movies take themselves too seriously compared to the material they were based on. Am I going to listen to psychoanalysis from someone with a mask? Baltasar Kormakur Read Quote
I am a big fan of movies that don’t take themselves too seriously. You know you won’t change the world, but have fun. Movies like ‘Butch Cassidy’ I enjoyed tremendously, but it didn’t alter my opinion of the world. Baltasar Kormakur Read Quote
Real acting is about giving people an insight into a person, letting the audience in. Baltasar Kormakur Read Quote
I consider myself more a European director who is from Iceland than an Icelandic director. Baltasar Kormakur Read Quote
In Iceland, the weather is the biggest character you deal with every day. There’s nothing more relevant in your life than what kind of weather it is. Baltasar Kormakur Read Quote
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. Baltasar Kormakur Read Quote
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. Baltasar Kormakur Read Quote
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? Baltasar Kormakur Read Quote