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

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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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Dogme is like leading a religious life, in that you are freeing yourself from making certain choices. It makes life easier. "

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

" 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 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 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. "

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

" None of my movies are autobiographical. "

Autobiographical

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 see myself as a storyteller. "

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

" 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 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 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. "

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

" There are certain things you cannot accept. There are certain things that human beings cannot tolerate. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "