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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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.
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Oftentimes, reality is much worse than what you can put in a movie.
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I think the good thing about Dogme is that it forces you into an extreme sense of reality because there's no artificial light and no set design and all of those icings on the cake that you usually have on a movie.
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I think that being Jewish has generated an extremely strong sense of the importance of family. If I look at my Scandinavian colleagues, they don't have that urgency about family. All my movies are about that.
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John le Carre's 'The Night Manager' is a relentlessly exhilarating thriller with profound emotional depths.
human
I think it's extremely difficult consistently being a decent human being.
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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 best, lonesome and capable, at worst, lonesome and hard. And is that what we want? No.
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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.
people
In reality most people aren't as perfect as they want to seem.
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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'm extremely straightforward. And I can't do that sort of traditional girl thing of saying one thing that actually means something else. I never understood it, and I still don't understand it.
life lives turns
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.
You win an Oscar, and the movie that comes after that is always going to be compared.
idyllic society
You don't have to go very far away from Scandinavia to realize what an idyllic society it is.