Susanne Bier Quotes

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• 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…
• You win an Oscar, and the movie that comes after that is always going to be compared.
• A lot of people who live in Denmark will understand Danish but not necessarily speak it.
• I quite like some of the movies that have many characters in them.
• For me, grief is a static thing, and my movies have an extremely dynamic sort of movement.
• Oftentimes, reality is much worse than what you can put in a movie.
• Women, nowhere in the world, have the kind of important position in society in the amount that they ought to have.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• I have this almost obsessive desire to whomever is close to me: I want to have a very intense, close, intimate relationship with them.
• Having done a Dogme film taught me the beauty of simplicity and austerity.
• Parents can shape a child, but a great teacher can, too.
• Denmark is like a big family of people.
• In a way, our family is our modern identity.
• I see myself as a storyteller.
• Dogme is like leading a religious life, in that you are freeing yourself from making certain choices. It makes life easier.
• None of my movies are autobiographical.
• There are certain things you cannot accept. There are certain things that human beings cannot tolerate.

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