I have this almost obsessive desire to whomever is close to me: I want to have a very intense, close, intimate relationship with them.
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.
Oftentimes, reality is much worse than what you can put in a movie.
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.
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.
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 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'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.
For me, grief is a static thing, and my movies have an extremely dynamic sort of movement.
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.
A lot of people who live in Denmark will understand Danish but not necessarily speak it.
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 think possibly, as an artist, you're always treated with a certain respect but also with a certain sort of nervousness.
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.
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.
I quite like some of the movies that have many characters in them.
In reality most people aren't as perfect as they want to seem.
I guess I strongly feel that we cannot pretend that the Third World is not part of our world. We cannot say 'OK, there's that problem over there, let's just close our eyes' - we cannot do that.
John le Carre's 'The Night Manager' is a relentlessly exhilarating thriller with profound emotional depths.
I've got this fear of becoming comfortable.
