In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.

I've often noticed that we are not able to look at what we have in front of us, unless it's inside a frame.

Religion works on some people but not on everyone, because it says, 'Stop thinking and accept what I tell you.' That's not valid for people who want to think and reflect.

Cinema seats make people lazy. They expect to be given all the information. But for me, question marks are the punctuation of life.

A movie is about human beings, about humanity.

Film is very much a universal and common voice, and we can't limit it to one particular culture.

Good cinema is what we can believe and bad cinema is what we can't believe. What you see and believe in is very much what I'm interested in.

My way of expression is full of complications and mystery because that's my perception of life.

I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work!

I spend a lot of time doing carpentry. Sometimes there is nothing that gives me the contentment that sawing a piece of wood does.

I think it was [Jean-Luc] Godard who said that life is nothing but a bad copy of film, but then our ambition must be to make better films and better shapes of forms that are given in life.

That is her style of beauty.

I did not come this far to settle for less than I deserve.

I admire my father greatly.

Sensuality often makes love grow too quickly, so that the root remains weak and is easy to pull out.

Thomas Gravesen thinks he's broke his hand, but I told him that you play football with your feet and not your hand.

Christian, your whole life is to be one continuous following of the Lord.

Mother love is invariably held sacred, as it should be, but why has father love never had its due?

Keeping a commitment to listening has led me to my own growth, beyond any imagined dreams I may have had throughout the years.

Opportunities will be available to you that you cannot imagine.

Fishing... is a sport invented by insects and you are the bait.