Susanne Bier Quotes

I'm extremely straightforward. And I can't do that sort of traditional girl thing of saying one thing that actually means something else. I never understood it, and I still don't understand it.
In a way, our family is our modern identity.
In a way, the whole notion of a blueprint of a building is not that different from a script for a movie. A sequence of spaces, which is what you do as an architect, is really the same as a sequence of scenes.
In reality most people aren't as perfect as they want to seem.
I've always been slightly hesitant about generalizing movies made by men and women being different in their nature; I think movies by each director are different. Having said that, I think that it's kind of disgraceful that there aren't more female directors.
I've got this fear of becoming comfortable.
I've had a very fortunate, very privileged life. I say it with all humility because it could change tomorrow.
John le Carre's 'The Night Manager' is a relentlessly exhilarating thriller with profound emotional depths.
My favorite hobby is matchmaking. It's a lot easier to do it in movies then in real life because in real life, people don't do what I tell them to do.
My mother has had breast cancer twice. And my mother has always been this very positive human being: a glass-half-full type. Like, when she was in treatment and feeling really bad, she would always talk about some nurse that was particularly nice to her.
None of my movies are autobiographical.
Oftentimes, reality is much worse than what you can put in a movie.
Parents can shape a child, but a great teacher can, too.
People don't necessarily do evil deeds because they want to; people happen to do something with horrible consequences even if they meant to be kind.
The foundations of our lives are far more fragile than we think. So we are severely shaken when life turns out to have a will of its own.
The main thing as a director, you always want to have a bit of a worry about the material you're going to get yourself into. You want to be a bit scared of it so that you have that excitement of having to climb the mountain.
There are certain things you cannot accept. There are certain things that human beings cannot tolerate.
There were 10 or 15 years where all the Scandinavian movies were gray and light brown. I got really bored with it. I really felt that movies had to have that life of vivid colors.
We always want to find good and bad guys, and I don't believe in that.
When I watch a movie myself, I want to forget that I'm watching a movie, and I want to be inside the movie. That's the kind of experience I want my audience to have.
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Susanne Bier
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15 April, 1960
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Denmark
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