I'm not a woman! Let's make that very clear! Oh I don't know, maybe I am. I am an American woman. Or 65 percent of me is.

It’s the opening of Manderlay in Cannes, and I’m sitting next to this guy who’s writing for a tiny fictitious French paper called ‘On the Sunny Side,’ and he’s writing a review on the film, and he’s obviously bored. Then he tells me about all the cars he owns, and how rich he is, and all these things... So, at a certain point, he says, "So what do you do?" Then I take out this very strange hammer we have in the Danish building business, and I say, "I kill." And then I kill him. It is as stupid as it sounds.

That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, so you don't have to worry about them

I encouraged the cast to make up their own lines.

A film has to be like a stone in the shoe.

Everything is going to hell, but we should smile all the way.

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