Quotes by Susanne Bier

About Susanne Bier:

Susanne Bier is a Danish film director best known for her feature films Brothers, After the Wedding and the Academy Award winning In a Better World.
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I really don't like that modern notion of 'I don't need anyone.' I see a lot of young women feeling they have to be that way, they have to be hard, in a way. And what does that bring them? They're just going to be lonesome. They're going to be, at be...

Susanne Bier

A lot of people who live in Denmark will understand Danish but not necessarily speak it.

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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.

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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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In reality most people aren't as perfect as they want to seem.

Susanne Bier

John le Carre's 'The Night Manager' is a relentlessly exhilarating thriller with profound emotional depths.

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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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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.

Susanne Bier

I don't feel I have an issue with listening or understanding English in any sort of way.

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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.

Susanne Bier

I don't want actors to be writers. I think it's too much responsibility.

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If you look at children's stories in fairy tales, they're pretty brutal.

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I never have particular actors planned when I'm in the process of writing.

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I see myself as a storyteller.

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I think it's extremely difficult consistently being a decent human being.

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You win an Oscar, and the movie that comes after that is always going to be compared.

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Oftentimes, reality is much worse than what you can put in a movie.

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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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There are certain things you cannot accept. There are certain things that human beings cannot tolerate.

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I guess I strongly feel that we cannot pretend that the Third World is not part of our world. We cannot say 'OK, there's that problem over there, let's just close our eyes' - we cannot do that.

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Author Bio

  • NameSusanne Bier
  • DescriptionDanish film director
  • BornApril 15, 1960
  • CountryDenmark
  • ProfessionFilm Director; Film Producer; Screenwriter