In reality most people aren't as perfect as they want to seem.
— Susanne Bier
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.
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.
You win an Oscar, and the movie that comes after that is always going to be compared.
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.
For me, grief is a static thing, and my movies have an extremely dynamic sort of movement.
I quite like some of the movies that have many characters in them.
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.
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 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.
I don't know that there's more bullying or whether it's just more talked about. It seems to me that possibly that there's been a lot of bullying all the time, but at the moment, it's something that people are talking about.
I think possibly, as an artist, you're always treated with a certain respect but also with a certain sort of nervousness.
A lot of people who live in Denmark will understand Danish but not necessarily speak it.
