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The winters are too long, and there’s only one airline, so it’s difficult to escape when you feel frustrated or claustrophobic. The audience for our films isn’t very large, so it’s difficult to support an industry. But, Iceland is beautiful. Sometimes it’s hard to imagine living anywhere else.

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Baltasar Kormakur

I really wanted to make ‘Everest’ visceral, real. One thing that amazed me when I was scouting in base camp is the volume of Everest: It’s humbling. I wanted to find a way to bring that to the screen. One way was 3D.

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Baltasar Kormakur

I’ve always looked at filmmaking as a lifestyle. There is no decision of when you go to work. It’s a way of life: you’re thinking about scripts; you see things and think, ‘That could be interesting’… I don’t think about my work as, ‘Today I’ll work on this, this and that.’ It just comes to me.

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Baltasar Kormakur

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.

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Baltasar Kormakur

People talk about Hollywood as a myth, but in reality, when you make Icelandic movies and you want to get them distributed in the U.S., you’re not really working with Hollywood. The movies I’ve been making, the first one I made, I made it with Working Title, but it was financed through Universal, so it became a Hollywood production.

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Baltasar Kormakur

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.

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Baltasar Kormakur

In the case of ‘The Deep,’ because of the people involved, the talent and the real lives of people who died, I wanted to make the most honest film I could. And sometimes that’s the best way to go: Just make the best version of the film you can.

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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?

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Baltasar Kormakur

Throughout the history of Iceland, men have been lost at sea; every family in Iceland is connected to that kind of story.

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Baltasar Kormakur

Real acting is about giving people an insight into a person, letting the audience in.

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Baltasar Kormakur

I don’t see Hollywood as the big enemy, because this is where the money is, and not all of the companies are doing studio movies. I’m not tempted to sell out. If I’m going to become well known, I want it to be for something I’m proud of.

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Baltasar Kormakur

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.

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