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" A lot of people who live in Denmark will understand Danish but not necessarily speak it. "

" Anders Thomas Jensen and I had talked about making a movie which addressed the cancer issue, and we didn't want to make it heavy-handed. We wanted to do something which had a lot of hope in it. And then for some reason we came up with a romantic comedy. "

" Any creative process is about being in a territory which isn't secure, isn't necessarily familiar, and isn't convenient in any sort of way. And that's the excitement of it. "

" As a filmmaker, I always try not to concern myself with the outcome of things. I make the movie, and I do that as honestly and good as I can. I don't want to pollute my thoughts with what is going to happen with it afterwards, because I have to work inside-out. "

" A significant number of women who have been ill or had marital issues feel they have no value, and society is so keen on telling us that's the case. "

" At some stage in most people's lives, things turn upside down, and nothing is as you expected it to be. "

" Denmark is like a big family of people. "

" Dogme is like leading a religious life, in that you are freeing yourself from making certain choices. It makes life easier. "

" For me, grief is a static thing, and my movies have an extremely dynamic sort of movement. "

" For the Oscars, I had a speech in my hand, and I just knew if I opened the piece of paper, I was going to be unable to read it. So I just thought, 'I'm going to say, as coherently as I can, whatever I can.' "

" For years, whenever I'd been travelling and came back to Copenhagen, I'd think: 'People are so stylish.' And it's not any one class. It's everyday life. "

" Having done a Dogme film taught me the beauty of simplicity and austerity. "

" I am very close to my family, and there's something life-affirming about that. Even if you feel completely different from them and have totally different views on politics and ethics, you're still family and have that immediate acceptance. "

" I believe in rules. I believe in artistic limitations, and I always have. I've always thought that setting out a set of rules before you start, and then being completely consistent with them, is the only way to make a really good film. "

" I did learn a lot from 'Things We Lost in the Fire,' but I've learned different things from different films. "

" I don't do a lot of rehearsal. I don't like rehearsals. I rehearse the day or morning. I spend one hour and a half with all the actors, and we go over the scenes, and we change it and change the dialogue, and we do a lot of things to it, but prior to shooting, I don't really rehearse. "

" I don't feel I have an issue with listening or understanding English in any sort of way. "

" I don't feel that I'm strictly Danish; I don't feel that my sense of humor is strictly Danish or my human sensibility is strictly Danish. "

" I don't know that there's more bullying or whether it's just more talked about. It seems to me that possibly that there's been a lot of bullying all the time, but at the moment, it's something that people are talking about. "

" I don't want actors to be writers. I think it's too much responsibility. "

" If I go home from a day of shooting, and I haven't at some point felt the magic, I'm really frustrated. "

" If my daughter's going to go out in the winter with summer clothes, I'm gonna question it. And at some point, I assume, if the conversation goes on long enough, if I can convince her, she will put on some warm clothes. And I think that sort of exchange is pretty valid. "

" If you look at children's stories in fairy tales, they're pretty brutal. "

" I generally edit quite heavily. In general, there aren't many scenes that are sitting where they sat in the script in the final form. "

" I guess I strongly feel that we cannot pretend that the Third World is not part of our world. We cannot say 'OK, there's that problem over there, let's just close our eyes' - we cannot do that. "

" I hate when the sun is high and there are no shadows. If I could do super high-budget movies, I would only shoot when the sun starts to get low - but you can't just shoot for four hours every day. "

" I have a slight controversy with the Dogme brethren because I've been saying that rules are to be interpreted; not that I haven't followed the rules, because I don't see the point of submitting yourself to a set of rules if you don't follow them. But having said that, it is always a lot of interpretation. "

" I have this almost obsessive desire to whomever is close to me: I want to have a very intense, close, intimate relationship with them. "

" I'm a huge fan of Richard Curtis - there's real grief, real compassion in his films as well as cheekiness; it's a wonderful cocktail. "

" I'm extremely straightforward. And I can't do that sort of traditional girl thing of saying one thing that actually means something else. I never understood it, and I still don't understand it. "

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