Quotes by Tobias Lindholm - Page 1

My dream is that my kids grow up into nice people; that's my dream.
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Nice People
Grow Up
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It seems like as soon as you have written something, it dictates a story. So I need to be careful.
Tobias Lindholm /
Be Careful
Needs
Stories
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I studied screenwriting at film school and was constantly learning how to construct three-act dramas.
Tobias Lindholm /
Film School
Screenwriting
Construct
Dramas
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Sometimes it seems like if you open up the door to reality and invite it in, it will just come flowing.
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Doors
Reality
Sometimes
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After film school, I would write 8 hours a day on film and 8 hours a night on TV, and then sleep once and a while.
Tobias Lindholm /
Film School
Night Day School
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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.
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Doubt
Surfing
Wave
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I've never been a soldier. In Denmark, at 18, as a male, you go in a draw, and if they pick you, you go and serve for a year. I didn't.
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Denmark
Soldier
Male
Draw
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Denmark is a small nation of five million people, but our economy is completely dependent on our commercial fleet. Every family has some connection to it.
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Denmark
Dependent
Connection
Fleet
Million People
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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.
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Country
Islands
Sailor
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I don't want to write lines where characters tell me exactly how they feel; I want to see people talk about anything but their feelings, like they do in real life.
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Lines
Real Life
Life Me People
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My mother - she's a good old classic Northern European socialist - she's totally wonderful, but she raised me up believing that rich people have stolen their money from poor people.
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Classic
Poor People
Rich People
Socialist
Stolen
Good Money Me
Believing
Northern
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Everyone in Denmark has at least two or three sailors in their family; sea travel is part of the DNA of our nation, and because of that, I'd always wanted to tell a story aboard a ship.
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Denmark
Dna
Sea
Sailors
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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."
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Men
Cameras
Style
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In 2007 and 2008, the first two Danish ships were hijacked. I started to research it. I've had the idea of writing in this arena for a long time, but I could never find the angle of what kind of story.
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Angle
Arena
Danish
Ships
Hijacked
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I have three sons, and the oldest wants to play pirates all the time. It has all these associations of living some kind of very free life. It's interesting for me as a filmmaker to show a whole different side of that.
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Filmmaker
Free Life
Life Time Me
Associations
Oldest
Pirates
Sons
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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.
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Guy
Heart
Writing
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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. So, in many ways, my father was a sailor before I was born.
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Denmark
Islands
Sailor
Fleet
Small Country
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I'm a filmmaker; I want to make films. I don't want to sit in a hotel room waiting to make films, and I can control my thing in Denmark; I can make the film I want to make... of course, I have to write a good script, all that, but if I do my job, it will happen.
Tobias Lindholm /
Denmark
Hotel
Waiting
Good Script
Hotel Room
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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.
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Hardest
Middle
Writing
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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.
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Beautiful
Falling In Love
Real
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My father was a soldier. He was a frogman in the special forces in Denmark before I was born, and always the reality of that inspired me. My mom is very left-wing, classic socialist, and she always talked about the solders as almost crazy, violent, sick people, and I want to confront that because its very judgmental, and I'm not sure it's true.
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Classic
Denmark
Judgmental
Left Wing
Sick
Socialist
Soldier
Special Forces
Confront
Forces
Talked
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