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

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" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

" Denmark is like a big family of people. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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 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. "

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

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