At some stage in most people's lives, things turn upside down, and nothing is as you expected it to be.

Anders Thomas Jensen and I had talked about making a movie which addressed the cancer issue, and we didn't want to make it heavy-handed. We wanted to do something which had a lot of hope in it. And then for some reason we came up with a romantic comedy.

A lot of people who live in Denmark will understand Danish but not necessarily speak it.

My mother has had breast cancer twice. And my mother has always been this very positive human being: a glass-half-full type. Like, when she was in treatment and feeling really bad, she would always talk about some nurse that was particularly nice to her.

You win an Oscar, and the movie that comes after that is always going to be compared.

I think possibly, as an artist, you're always treated with a certain respect but also with a certain sort of nervousness.