Thomas Vinterberg Quotes

I'm doing things that are more artistic again, more close to the material that I love. I don't disparage those things that I did. They're just not as much reflective of who I am.

Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself.

Use the creative process - singing, writing, art, dance, whatever - to get to know yourself better.

I have done a lot of work internally to find out who I am, what voice Eamonn Walker has and how he wants to put it out there.

The roles I think about and can't stop thinking about - on the subway, when I'm riding my bike, when I'm running - are the things I connect to.

With every role that I do, I always see a little bit of me, a little bit of art and life.

I think 'Lost Boy' is more of a metaphor for oneself. When I listen to that song, I don't picture someone else. I kind of wrote it from a very honest place.

With every project you do, you bring out a part of yourself, and it seems to be quite a good way of expanding a person.

I have learned so much about myself. I have re-discovered that little boy who had the hunger to create, which I think I had lost.

I have always written only for myself - to clarify things, to clarify things with myself, to understand in an inner way what is actually happening.

I love how people in this business push themselves to know themselves, the world, and their creativity better.

I started out in the 'Cure' reflecting things that I thought were important, and it's reached a point where it takes over and becomes the thing that is important.

I believe acting to be my own journey through connection more than anything else, but that's only my take on it.

'Wild Hope' just felt like such a selfish venture to me. It was a way for me to get out of my head, get some clarity on certain situations, and finally be a part of something that I was completely behind creatively and proud of.

There are parts of me that I keep secret even from myself. I have demons and I'd love to be able to healthily look at the demons and still be a wonderful actor and not feel I need them to create.

Writing music on your own makes you think a lot about your life. Who are you? Would you change anything about yourself? This is where it comes from.

I am still the place where creation does some work on itself.

Yeah, it is, because it's a real discovery of your inner resources, you know. That's what my character is all about and what my playing is all about. But to get up there and just go inside and draw out something that makes you feel good first and foremost.

The story of 'Lasers' is my story. I didn't have to look too far to get subject matter for this record; it was stuff that was happening to me.

No, I feel like my personality probably influenced the character, more than the character influenced me.

To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all.

I feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am. It's a natural process.

It just seemed hedonistic when I first started acting. It was a pleasurable thing. But as I look back on it now, I understand that it was a journey of the self for me.

My films are always a reflection of where I am in my life.

For me, filmmaking is not exactly a career. I was never in it for Hollywood or anything. My films are markers of where I am in life, where I am in my head. So that's what I'm working on, and I try to keep things in proportion - life and filmmaking. One feeds into the other.