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" 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. "

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" Oftentimes, reality is much worse than what you can put in a movie. "

" 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 think the lack of automatically feeling, 'Yes, the future is going to be like the present' - that is very much a Jewish thing. "

" 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. "

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

" When I watch a movie myself, I want to forget that I'm watching a movie, and I want to be inside the movie. That's the kind of experience I want my audience to have. "

" 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'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. "

" My favorite hobby is matchmaking. It's a lot easier to do it in movies then in real life because in real life, people don't do what I tell them to do. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" People don't necessarily do evil deeds because they want to; people happen to do something with horrible consequences even if they meant to be kind. "

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

" Parents can shape a child, but a great teacher can, too. "

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

" 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 got this fear of becoming comfortable. "

" I quite like some of the movies that have many characters in 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. "

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

" I think it's extremely difficult consistently being a decent human being. "

" I see myself as a storyteller. "

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

" We always want to find good and bad guys, and I don't believe in that. "