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
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.
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.
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.
extremely family importance jewish movies urgency
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.
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.
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.