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" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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'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. "

" 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 feel I have an issue with listening or understanding English in any sort of way. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" The main thing as a director, you always want to have a bit of a worry about the material you're going to get yourself into. You want to be a bit scared of it so that you have that excitement of having to climb the mountain. "

" None of my movies are autobiographical. "

Autobiographical

" My mother has had breast cancer twice. And my mother has always been this very positive human being: a glass-half-full type. Like, when she was in treatment and feeling really bad, she would always talk about some nurse that was particularly nice to her. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "