Tobias Lindholm quotes

Sometimes it seems like if you open up the door to reality and invite it in, it will just come flowing.
-- Tobias Lindholm

#Reality #Doors #Sometimes

Denmark is a country built on a commercial fleet. That's basically what we have been doing. We're just a small country of islands, and every family has a sailor.
-- Tobias Lindholm

#Country #Islands #Sailor

It seems like as soon as you have written something, it dictates a story. So I need to be careful.
-- Tobias Lindholm

#Needs #Stories #Be Careful

Everybody can write a beginning and an ending, but to actually define that middle point where everything will go from professional to person, where everything will change, is always the hardest part, because it can very easily be too constructed, too artificial.
-- Tobias Lindholm

#Writing #Middle #Hardest

I never thought about writing the part where the pirates get on board the ship. I wasn't interested in that. I'm not an action director. I'm sure that other guys could do it a lot better. I couldn't put my heart into it.
-- Tobias Lindholm

#Writing #Heart #Guy

The camera cannot leave the man, but the man can leave the camera. It's in the style of documentary where you make an agreement between a camera and a man and say, "I'm going to film you now."
-- Tobias Lindholm

#Men #Style #Cameras

In real life, we're not walking around waiting for something to happen. We live our lives, and then suddenly we fall in love with somebody, and it's a big mess because you have a wife already, and it's going to destroy your life. And, at the same time, it's beautiful. Often, in films, it's not like that.
-- Tobias Lindholm

#Beautiful #Falling In Love #Real

No doubt there is a Scandinavian wave. I guess everybody is just surfing their wave until it breaks and hoping it won't be too soon.
-- Tobias Lindholm

#Surfing #Doubt #Wave

Louis de Bernires is in the direct line that runs through Dickens and Evelyn Waugh. . .he has only to look into his world, one senses, for it to rush into reality, colours and touch and taste.

It is possible to be a meta-physician without believing in a transcendent reality; for we shall see that many metaphysical utterances are due to the commission of logical errors, rather than to a conscious desire on the part of their authors to go beyond the limits of experience.

If you close your eyes you can imagine the hackers sitting in a room, combing through the documents to find the ones that will draw the most blood. And in a room next door are American journalists doing the same thing. As demented and criminal as it is, at least the hackers are doing it for a cause. The press is doing it for a nickel.

Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door.

The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.

The doors of opportunity swing on the hinges of opposition!

Sometimes to heal, you must first get hurt.

Sometimes I sing along in the car, if something good is playing like Marvin Gaye.

Sometimes, all it takes is your smile (even if forced) & a domino effect of smiles happen ... infectious.

Not every song has to be about love and tenderness, sometimes you have those strictly physical feelings for somebody and it's okay to have those feelings.