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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We always want to find good and bad guys, and I don't believe in that.

Susanne Bier

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.

Susanne Bier

I've got this fear of becoming comfortable.

Susanne Bier

I think the lack of automatically feeling, 'Yes, the future is going to be like the present' - that is very much a Jewish thing.

Susanne Bier

I only had girlfriends when I became an adult. I was always playing with boys when I was a kid. And I always had a natural access to the world of boys and men. And I still guess I feel that. I always had very close friends that were men. And I guess ...

Susanne Bier

Dogme is like leading a religious life, in that you are freeing yourself from making certain choices. It makes life easier.

Susanne Bier

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.

Susanne Bier

For years, whenever I'd been travelling and came back to Copenhagen, I'd think: 'People are so stylish.' And it's not any one class. It's everyday life.

Susanne Bier

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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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.

Susanne Bier

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.

Susanne Bier

I have this almost obsessive desire to whomever is close to me: I want to have a very intense, close, intimate relationship with them.

Susanne Bier

I think possibly, as an artist, you're always treated with a certain respect but also with a certain sort of nervousness.

Susanne Bier

A significant number of women who have been ill or had marital issues feel they have no value, and society is so keen on telling us that's the case.

Susanne Bier

Women, nowhere in the world, have the kind of important position in society in the amount that they ought to have.

Susanne Bier

You don't have to go very far away from Scandinavia to realize what an idyllic society it is.

Susanne Bier

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 d...

Susanne Bier

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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I quite like some of the movies that have many characters in them.

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For me, grief is a static thing, and my movies have an extremely dynamic sort of movement.

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None of my movies are autobiographical.

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Author Bio

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