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" 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. "

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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. "

" Denmark is like a big family of people. "

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

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

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

" Parents can shape a child, but a great teacher can, too. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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've got this fear of becoming comfortable. "

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

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

" 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'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. "

" 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. "

" None of my movies are autobiographical. "

Autobiographical

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" I quite like some of the movies that have many characters in them. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "