Susanne Bier Quotes

A lot of people who live in Denmark will understand Danish but not necessarily speak it.
A significant number of women who have been ill or had marital issues feel they have no value, and society is so keen on telling us that's the case.
Anders Thomas Jensen and I had talked about making a movie which addressed the cancer issue, and we didn't want to make it heavy-handed. We wanted to do something which had a lot of hope in it. And then for some reason we came up with a romantic comedy.
Any creative process is about being in a territory which isn't secure, isn't necessarily familiar, and isn't convenient in any sort of way. And that's the excitement of it.
As a filmmaker, I always try not to concern myself with the outcome of things. I make the movie, and I do that as honestly and good as I can. I don't want to pollute my thoughts with what is going to happen with it afterwards, because I have to work inside-out.
At some stage in most people's lives, things turn upside down, and nothing is as you expected it to be.
Denmark is like a big family of people.
Dogme is like leading a religious life, in that you are freeing yourself from making certain choices. It makes life easier.
For me, grief is a static thing, and my movies have an extremely dynamic sort of movement.
For the Oscars, I had a speech in my hand, and I just knew if I opened the piece of paper, I was going to be unable to read it. So I just thought, 'I'm going to say, as coherently as I can, whatever I can.'
For years, whenever I'd been travelling and came back to Copenhagen, I'd think: 'People are so stylish.' And it's not any one class. It's everyday life.
Having done a Dogme film taught me the beauty of simplicity and austerity.
I am very close to my family, and there's something life-affirming about that. Even if you feel completely different from them and have totally different views on politics and ethics, you're still family and have that immediate acceptance.
I believe in rules. I believe in artistic limitations, and I always have. I've always thought that setting out a set of rules before you start, and then being completely consistent with them, is the only way to make a really good film.
I did learn a lot from 'Things We Lost in the Fire,' but I've learned different things from different films.
I don't do a lot of rehearsal. I don't like rehearsals. I rehearse the day or morning. I spend one hour and a half with all the actors, and we go over the scenes, and we change it and change the dialogue, and we do a lot of things to it, but prior to shooting, I don't really rehearse.
I don't feel I have an issue with listening or understanding English in any sort of way.
I don't feel that I'm strictly Danish; I don't feel that my sense of humor is strictly Danish or my human sensibility is strictly Danish.
I don't know that there's more bullying or whether it's just more talked about. It seems to me that possibly that there's been a lot of bullying all the time, but at the moment, it's something that people are talking about.
I don't want actors to be writers. I think it's too much responsibility.
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Susanne Bier
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15 April, 1960
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