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When I was younger, I was fascinated by David Bowie, for example. he had created an entire myth around himself. It was as important as his music.

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When I was in film school, it was said that all good films were characterised by some form of humour.

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You could say that when you introduce humour to your work, you also step back a little from it. You create a distance.

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I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden.

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If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.

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Actors need bricks to play with, and in fact we rejected all the improvised fragments we had made without a plan. Improvisation without a plan is like tennis without tennis balls.

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Only a fool does not fear actors, but you can't beat them, and if you can't beat them, join them, as they say. As I've got older I've become very interested in that part of the work.

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I sit there pouring out my woes year after year, coming up with one enormity after another about my mother and the way she let me down; but it doesn't make me any the less fearful.

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It's always been a lie that it's difficult to make films.

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I think it's important that we all try to give something to this medium, instead of just thinking about what is the most efficient way of telling a story or making an audience stay in a cinema.

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Biography

Nationality: Danish

Type: Director

Born: April 30th, 1956

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