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
close family immediate politics totally views
I am very close to my family, and there's something life-affirming about that. Even if you feel completely different from them and have totally different views on politics and ethics, you're still family and have that immediate acceptance.
felt home
If I go home from a day of shooting, and I haven't at some point felt the magic, I'm really frustrated.
blueprint script sequence
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.
bullying people possibly seems talked talking time whether
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.
came life travelling whenever
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.
family
In a way, our family is our modern identity.
If you look at children's stories in fairy tales, they're pretty brutal.
beauty
Having done a Dogme film taught me the beauty of simplicity and austerity.
family
Denmark is like a big family of people.
great shape teacher
Parents can shape a child, but a great teacher can, too.
sort understanding
I don't feel I have an issue with listening or understanding English in any sort of way.
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.
feeling human nice nurse positive talk treatment
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.
upside
At some stage in most people's lives, things turn upside down, and nothing is as you expected it to be.