Biography

January 17, 1969 · Malmö, Skåne län, Sweden

Karl Frederik Lukas Moodysson

5′ 10¾″ (1.80 m)

I have no conscious plan, so I don't know what happens next. There is a well inside me, but I don't know what is in it. I try to listen out for things - accidents and coincidences and hidden messages. I am a person who always finds photographs on the street and I think they are messages for me.

I was very surprised when my first book came out that it didn't get more attention than it did. I remember thinking, 'Why are people just walking on the street? Why don't they just stop and stand on the corner and read my book? What is wrong with them?'

The only problem is that everyone then says that Bergman is like my father, which is not true. If anything, I'm more like his grandson than his son. My generation are not very affected by him. I was putting together a list - just because I like lists - of the things that have influenced me most in my life. And at number one was the Cure. At two, three and four were Swedish music and writers you won't have heard of. And Morrissey was at number five. I tried to put some films in there but the first director was David Lynch at number eight, and that was more because of Twin Peaks than anything else. So you see, Bergman really was not a major influence.

I realise that the reason I'm a film-maker is that I'm deeply conflicted in my feelings about things.