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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" John le Carre's 'The Night Manager' is a relentlessly exhilarating thriller with profound emotional depths. "

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

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

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I would say I'm basically interested in human beings, and I don't really care whether they're men or women. I think my comprehension is about the same for both. "

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

" None of my movies are autobiographical. "

Autobiographical

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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