Quotes by '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...

cannot certain human

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

amount nowhere ought society women

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

future jewish lack

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

movies

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

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

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.

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

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.

dynamic extremely movies sort static

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

certain freeing leading life

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

ill issues keen number society telling women

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.

danish people

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