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 the lack of automatically feeling, 'Yes, the future is going to be like the present' - that is very much a Jewish thing.
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I think it's extremely difficult consistently being a decent human being.
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You don't have to go very far away from Scandinavia to realize what an idyllic society it is.
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If my daughter's going to go out in the winter with summer clothes, I'm gonna question it. And at some point, I assume, if the conversation goes on long enough, if I can convince her, she will put on some warm clothes. And I think that sort of exchange is pretty valid.
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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.
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I have a slight controversy with the Dogme brethren because I've been saying that rules are to be interpreted; not that I haven't followed the rules, because I don't see the point of submitting yourself to a set of rules if you don't follow them. But having said that, it is always a lot of interpretation.
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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.'
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I hate when the sun is high and there are no shadows. If I could do super high-budget movies, I would only shoot when the sun starts to get low - but you can't just shoot for four hours every day.
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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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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.
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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.
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Having done a Dogme film taught me the beauty of simplicity and austerity.
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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.