Personally I kept my feelings out of it and created a fantasy. That's the process of going through this world being beautiful.

The thing with Ryan, you can look at him for hours. Very few actors have that. It's a gift.

Creativity is very self-indulgent.

All my other movies have the same process. Same approach. Same amount of changes. Everything. Things being made up on the fly. Changing things around. Firing and recasting. Constantly, constantly, in chronological sequence, not really knowing how this is going to end up. That is the only dogmatic approach I take towards everything.

I am a child of cinema, and I am a cineaste, so everything I do is a reference to something I've heard or experienced or seen. And we all do it, we all steal. The ones who claim they don't, are obviously lying, because you do. You just have to make it your own.

I think that Danish people may be thought off as the happiest people, but honestly...I love America.

The fairy tale always takes place in worlds that are between, unidentifiable.