Susanne Bier

The foundations of our lives are far more fragile than we think. So we are severely shaken when life turns out to…

— Susanne Bier

I think it is kind of depressing how few female filmmakers there are. I think it is in general depressing how few…

— Susanne Bier

Any creative process is about being in a territory which isn't secure, isn't necessarily familiar, and isn't convenient in any sort of…

— Susanne Bier

Parents can shape a child, but a great teacher can, too.

— Susanne Bier

A significant number of women who have been ill or had marital issues feel they have no value, and society is so…

— Susanne Bier

My mother has had breast cancer twice. And my mother has always been this very positive human being: a glass-half-full type. Like,…

— Susanne Bier

I only had girlfriends when I became an adult. I was always playing with boys when I was a kid. And I…

— Susanne Bier

People don't necessarily do evil deeds because they want to; people happen to do something with horrible consequences even if they meant…

— Susanne Bier

Oftentimes, reality is much worse than what you can put in a movie.

— Susanne Bier

I have a slight controversy with the Dogme brethren because I've been saying that rules are to be interpreted; not that I…

— Susanne Bier

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

— Susanne Bier

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…

— Susanne Bier

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

— Susanne Bier

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

— Susanne Bier

If you look at children's stories in fairy tales, they're pretty brutal.

— Susanne Bier

I think most of my films all have a certain tone or intensity in them. They are tense, and you kind of…

— Susanne Bier

My favorite hobby is matchmaking. It's a lot easier to do it in movies then in real life because in real life,…

— Susanne Bier

You win an Oscar, and the movie that comes after that is always going to be compared.

— Susanne Bier

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

— Susanne Bier

John le Carre's 'The Night Manager' is a relentlessly exhilarating thriller with profound emotional depths.

— Susanne Bier

At some stage in most people's lives, things turn upside down, and nothing is as you expected it to be.

— Susanne Bier

I really don't like that modern notion of 'I don't need anyone.' I see a lot of young women feeling they have…

— Susanne Bier

I believe in rules. I believe in artistic limitations, and I always have. I've always thought that setting out a set of…

— Susanne Bier

Having done a Dogme film taught me the beauty of simplicity and austerity.

— Susanne Bier

I'm extremely straightforward. And I can't do that sort of traditional girl thing of saying one thing that actually means something else.…

— Susanne Bier