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.

I've always been slightly hesitant about generalizing movies made by men and women being different in their nature; I think movies by each director are different. Having said that, I think that it's kind of disgraceful that there aren't more female directors.

You don't have to go very far away from Scandinavia to realize what an idyllic society it is.

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

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.

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.