"The theater is more a medium for an actor than the cinema is. You are totally responsible for what you do on the stage; in a film, someone else can come in and edit you and do something totally different to what you had in mind originally, and they can cut you out, play around with the scenes or the chronology of the story. This happens always-more or less-in the cinema. On the stage, you deliver a performance and that is your responsibility. So filmmaking is much more a director's medium than it is an actor's."

 (Max von Sydow, pseudonimo di Carl Adolf von Sydow, attore; Lund, 10 aprile 1929 – Seillans, 8 marzo 2020)