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
bad believe good
We always want to find good and bad guys, and I don't believe in that.
concern good happen honestly outcome work
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.
artistic believe consistent good setting
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.
artificial cake design extreme forces good reality
I think the good thing about Dogme is that it forces you into an extreme sense of reality because there's no artificial light and no set design and all of those icings on the cake that you usually have on a movie.
extremely family importance jewish movies urgency
I think that being Jewish has generated an extremely strong sense of the importance of family. If I look at my Scandinavian colleagues, they don't have that urgency about family. All my movies are about that.
john thriller
John le Carre's 'The Night Manager' is a relentlessly exhilarating thriller with profound emotional depths.
certain respect sort
I think possibly, as an artist, you're always treated with a certain respect but also with a certain sort of nervousness.
certain films quite tone
I think most of my films all have a certain tone or intensity in them. They are tense, and you kind of anticipate some kind of catastrophe, but you're not quite sure.
experience inside watch watching
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.
movies
I quite like some of the movies that have many characters in them.
almost intimate obsessive relationship
I have this almost obsessive desire to whomever is close to me: I want to have a very intense, close, intimate relationship with them.
edit final generally quite scenes script
I generally edit quite heavily. In general, there aren't many scenes that are sitting where they sat in the script in the final form.
human humor
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.
learned
I did learn a lot from 'Things We Lost in the Fire,' but I've learned different things from different films.