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

Denmark is like a big family of people.

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.

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.

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

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.