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

" I see myself as a storyteller. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" I think the good thing about Dogme is that it forces you into an extreme sense of reality because there's no artificial light and no set design and all of those icings on the cake that you usually have on a movie. "

" Denmark is like a big family of people. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 generally edit quite heavily. In general, there aren't many scenes that are sitting where they sat in the script in the final form. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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 want actors to be writers. I think it's too much responsibility. "

" None of my movies are autobiographical. "

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" 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. "