I'm not looking for a challenge, necessarily. I'm looking to make a really great film.

I'd rather be voted "the sexiest man in Denmark" than "the ugliest man in Denmark".

One thing I can say about the French language is that no one in the world loves their language as much as they do.

If you spend a week at a casino you will very easily see that people have a certain way of behaving in a casino.

I take my work enormously seriously. When I do something, it has to feel right. Everything has to be right. I’m not ambitious about my career, but I am ambitious with each job. I can be fairly annoying to work with. No compromises, let’s put it this way. Compromises are from hell.

I choose work with the people I like to work with.

I do read some of the scripts from America and, even though the themes or subject of the film is very interesting, and some of the scenes are very interesting, there is a tendency that they have to explain everything. There will be no dilemma. This guy was evil, and this girl was very sweet. And in the end, we'd have to see eight endings because we'd also have to know what happened to the uncle. It's like, "Are you kidding me?!"