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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.

From Tobias Lindholm

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.

From Tobias Lindholm

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.

From Tobias Lindholm

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.

From Tobias Lindholm

I love to work with friends.

From Tobias Lindholm

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.

From Tobias Lindholm

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.

From Tobias Lindholm

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.

From Tobias Lindholm

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.

From Tobias Lindholm

My dream is that my kids grow up into nice people; that's my dream.

From Tobias Lindholm

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