“If Copenhagen were a person, that person would be generous, beautiful, elderly, but with a flair. A human being that has certain propensities for quarrelling, filled with imagination and with appetite for the new and with respect for the old - somebody who takes good care of things and of people.”
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If you asked somebody, 'what do you wish for in life?' they wouldn't say 'happiness.' I would have answered 'excitement, knowledge, ' God knows - I mean, many, many different things, but certainly not 'happiness'. It seemed like a foreign concept to wish for something that specific and that singular.
We have a certain warped sense of humor in Scandinavia, and that is what comes across in the choices in a lot of our movies.
When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn that in. I got praised for my imagination.
I use a lot of film images, analogies, and imagination.
