Dogme is like leading a religious life, in that you are freeing yourself from making certain choices. It makes life easier.

I think possibly, as an artist, you're always treated with a certain respect but also with a certain sort of nervousness.

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.

Denmark is like a big family of people.

Suffer to gain is better than gaining to suffer. In Christ you have to suffer to gain, but with the devil you have to gain to suffer. Christ is always the best.