Susanne Bier
Susanne Bier
Susanne Bieris a Danish film director best known for her feature films Brothers, After the Wedding and the Academy Award-winning In a Better World...
NationalityDanish
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth15 April 1960
CountryDenmark
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I think possibly, as an artist, you're always treated with a certain respect but also with a certain sort of nervousness.
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Oftentimes, reality is much worse than what you can put in a movie.
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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.
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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.
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I'm a huge fan of Richard Curtis - there's real grief, real compassion in his films as well as cheekiness; it's a wonderful cocktail.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I would say I'm basically interested in human beings, and I don't really care whether they're men or women. I think my comprehension is about the same for both.
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We always want to find good and bad guys, and I don't believe in that.
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Women, nowhere in the world, have the kind of important position in society in the amount that they ought to have.
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There are certain things you cannot accept. There are certain things that human beings cannot tolerate.
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At some stage in most people's lives, things turn upside down, and nothing is as you expected it to be.
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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.