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.

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.

I think it is kind of depressing how few female filmmakers there are. I think it is in general depressing how few women there are in ... important positions in society

There are good and bad movies, and long ones, and pretentious ones, and fun ones, and it's kind of healthy not just being able to switch off after ten minutes, but have patience.

I think there's a misconception of my wanting to do dark stuff.

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.

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

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

Are we the wreck or the ship of God's Word?

The speed at which progress rolls is not determined by the number of people who started pushing it, but by the number of people who are passionate to hold on doing so.

Among all the machines, motorcar is my favorite machine.

Aging is mostly the failure to repair.

People simply don't make eye contact anymore.

I mean, I can actually say goodbye to the game of golf, never hit another golf shot the rest of my life and I'd be happy because I can get back in life without any rotation.

To right, the unrightable wrong, to love pure and chaste from a-far, to try when your arms are too weary, to reach the unreachable star.

I'm okay, you're okay - in small doses.

I can't even remember when the Seventies was.

Forgiveness is divine, but never pay pull price for late pizza.