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

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" 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've always been slightly hesitant about generalizing movies made by men and women being different in their nature; I think movies by each director are different. Having said that, I think that it's kind of disgraceful that there aren't more female directors. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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 see myself as a storyteller. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Women, nowhere in the world, have the kind of important position in society in the amount that they ought to have. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "