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
easier favorite life movies people
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.
change life privileged
I've had a very fortunate, very privileged life. I say it with all humility because it could change tomorrow.
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.
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.
bored felt gray life movies vivid
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.
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.
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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.
director female hesitant men movies nature slightly women
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 directors.
certain respect sort
I think possibly, as an artist, you're always treated with a certain respect but also with a certain sort of nervousness.
certain films quite tone
I think most of my films all have a certain tone or intensity in them. They are tense, and you kind of anticipate some kind of catastrophe, but you're not quite sure.
basically human interested men whether women
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.
cannot guess pretend strongly third
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.
change half hour morning prior rehearse spend
I don't do a lot of rehearsal. I don't like rehearsals. I rehearse the day or morning. I spend one hour and a half with all the actors, and we go over the scenes, and we change it and change the dialogue, and we do a lot of things to it, but prior to shooting, I don't really rehearse.
compassion fan films huge richard wonderful
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.