Connie Nielsen

I love going to museums. ”

I love cities that are on the water. I love the water element, specifically the sea. I grew up on the sea and I grew up sailing - I love sailing - and the presence of the sea gives the air and the light a very special quality that I absolutely adore. ”

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. ”

I say no to a lot of things that just don't fit my life. I involve my kids in what I'm struggling with so they don't compete with it. ”

I don't think I can remember a moment in my life where people didn't discuss politics. People discuss politics at the table. ”

As long as we suspect female actors of being somehow complicit in their own victimization, as willing participants in their own humiliation, we shame the victim and enable the culture of silence that allows predators to act with impunity. ”

I always look for stories that really try to tell the world that I see, a world that values and is full, in fact, of stories that are important. ”

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. ”

I believe eating is a form of medicine, a reasoned way of giving your body and mind what it needs. ”

The act of writing can be a form of release - a confession performs the same action: putting your inner life on the page or into the hands of a trusted person releases tensions and sheds light on what often seems hidden until spoken - or written. ”