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.

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

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.

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.

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

When you find that one person who's worth taking a bullet for is the on standing behind the trigger.

In the end it’s all very simple. Either we give ourselves to Silence or we don’t.

The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest.

Hiring people is an art, not a science, and resumes can't tell you whether someone will fit into a company's culture.

We need to have a plan equal to the challenge.

Trust is very much a part of our democracy.

Act as if success is certain.

If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut?

An ethic is not an ethic, and a value not a value without somesacrifice for it. Something given up, something not gained.

It is almost impossible to state what one in fact believes, because it is almost impossible to hold a belief and to define it at the same time.