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" I don't want actors to be writers. I think it's too much responsibility. "
Susanne Bier
Too Much
Want
Responsibility
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" I believe in rules. I believe in artistic limitations, and I always have. I've always thought that setting out a set of rules before you start, and then being completely consistent with them, is the only way to make a really good film. "
Susanne Bier
Believe
Thought
Good
" I never have particular actors planned when I'm in the process of writing. "
Susanne Bier
Writing
Never
Planned
" 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. "
Susanne Bier
Cake
Reality
Think
" As a filmmaker, I always try not to concern myself with the outcome of things. I make the movie, and I do that as honestly and good as I can. I don't want to pollute my thoughts with what is going to happen with it afterwards, because I have to work inside-out. "
Susanne Bier
Myself
Work
Try
" I've got this fear of becoming comfortable. "
Susanne Bier
Comfortable
Becoming
Got
" 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. "
Susanne Bier
Change
Over
Morning
" I have this almost obsessive desire to whomever is close to me: I want to have a very intense, close, intimate relationship with them. "
Susanne Bier
Want
Almost
Me
" 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. "
Susanne Bier
People
Consequences
Be Kind
" 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. "
Susanne Bier
Movies
Bored
Colors
" Parents can shape a child, but a great teacher can, too. "
Susanne Bier
Parents
Shape
Teacher
" I don't know that there's more bullying or whether it's just more talked about. It seems to me that possibly that there's been a lot of bullying all the time, but at the moment, it's something that people are talking about. "
Susanne Bier
Time
People
Moment
" You don't have to go very far away from Scandinavia to realize what an idyllic society it is. "
Susanne Bier
Society
You
Far
" Having done a Dogme film taught me the beauty of simplicity and austerity. "
Susanne Bier
Done
Beauty
Simplicity
" 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. "
Susanne Bier
Compassion
Well
Grief
" Women, nowhere in the world, have the kind of important position in society in the amount that they ought to have. "
Susanne Bier
Women
Important
World
" 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. "
Susanne Bier
Clothes
Winter
Think
" I quite like some of the movies that have many characters in them. "
Susanne Bier
Like
Characters
Many
" I am very close to my family, and there's something life-affirming about that. Even if you feel completely different from them and have totally different views on politics and ethics, you're still family and have that immediate acceptance. "
Susanne Bier
You
Acceptance
Family
" 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. "
Susanne Bier
Own
Think
More
" In a way, our family is our modern identity. "
Susanne Bier
Identity
Way
Our
" None of my movies are autobiographical. "
Susanne Bier
Movies
None
Autobiographical
" I hate when the sun is high and there are no shadows. If I could do super high-budget movies, I would only shoot when the sun starts to get low - but you can't just shoot for four hours every day. "
Susanne Bier
You
Shadows
Movies
" I think it's extremely difficult consistently being a decent human being. "
Susanne Bier
Human
Human Being
Difficult
" In reality most people aren't as perfect as they want to seem. "
Susanne Bier
People
Want
Reality
" Oftentimes, reality is much worse than what you can put in a movie. "
Susanne Bier
Than
Much
Movie
" I've had a very fortunate, very privileged life. I say it with all humility because it could change tomorrow. "
Susanne Bier
Life
Change
Tomorrow
" I don't feel I have an issue with listening or understanding English in any sort of way. "
Susanne Bier
Feel
Any
Way
" Denmark is like a big family of people. "
Susanne Bier
People
Big
Big Family
" Anders Thomas Jensen and I had talked about making a movie which addressed the cancer issue, and we didn't want to make it heavy-handed. We wanted to do something which had a lot of hope in it. And then for some reason we came up with a romantic comedy. "
Susanne Bier
Hope
Romantic
Cancer
" I see myself as a storyteller. "
Susanne Bier
I See
Myself
See