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" Denmark is like a big family of people. "

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" I've got this fear of becoming comfortable. "

" I really don't like that modern notion of 'I don't need anyone.' I see a lot of young women feeling they have to be that way, they have to be hard, in a way. And what does that bring them? They're just going to be lonesome. They're going to be, at best, lonesome and capable, at worst, lonesome and hard. And is that what we want? No. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 never have particular actors planned when I'm in the process of writing. "

" There are certain things you cannot accept. There are certain things that human beings cannot tolerate. "

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

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" I think that being Jewish has generated an extremely strong sense of the importance of family. If I look at my Scandinavian colleagues, they don't have that urgency about family. All my movies are about that. "

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

" The foundations of our lives are far more fragile than we think. So we are severely shaken when life turns out to have a will of its own. "

" You win an Oscar, and the movie that comes after that is always going to be compared. "

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

" You don't have to go very far away from Scandinavia to realize what an idyllic society it is. "

" In a way, our family is our modern identity. "

" There were 10 or 15 years where all the Scandinavian movies were gray and light brown. I got really bored with it. I really felt that movies had to have that life of vivid colors. "

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

" 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. "

" I think most of my films all have a certain tone or intensity in them. They are tense, and you kind of anticipate some kind of catastrophe, but you're not quite sure. "

" In reality most people aren't as perfect as they want to seem. "

" In a way, the whole notion of a blueprint of a building is not that different from a script for a movie. A sequence of spaces, which is what you do as an architect, is really the same as a sequence of scenes. "

" 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've had a very fortunate, very privileged life. I say it with all humility because it could change tomorrow. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I think possibly, as an artist, you're always treated with a certain respect but also with a certain sort of nervousness. "