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" I really don't like that modern notion of 'I don't need anyone.' I see a lot of young women feeling they have to be that way, they have to be hard, in a way. And what does that bring them? They're just going to be lonesome. They're going to be, at best, lonesome and capable, at worst, lonesome and hard. And is that what we want? No. "

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" I'm extremely straightforward. And I can't do that sort of traditional girl thing of saying one thing that actually means something else. I never understood it, and I still don't understand it. "

Susanne Bier

Girl

Saying

Still

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

" 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 of its own. "

Susanne Bier

Own

Think

" 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. "

" For me, grief is a static thing, and my movies have an extremely dynamic sort of movement. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" In a way, our family is our modern identity. "

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

" I think it's extremely difficult consistently being a decent human being. "

" When I watch a movie myself, I want to forget that I'm watching a movie, and I want to be inside the movie. That's the kind of experience I want my audience to have. "

" 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 in treatment and feeling really bad, she would always talk about some nurse that was particularly nice to her. "

" 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. "

Susanne Bier

Women

Value

" 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 way. And that's the excitement of it. "

" I see myself as a storyteller. "

" 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. "

" I've had a very fortunate, very privileged life. I say it with all humility because it could change tomorrow. "

" 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. "

" For the Oscars, I had a speech in my hand, and I just knew if I opened the piece of paper, I was going to be unable to read it. So I just thought, 'I'm going to say, as coherently as I can, whatever I can.' "

" 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. "

" In reality most people aren't as perfect as they want to seem. "

" I quite like some of the movies that have many characters in them. "

Susanne Bier

Characters

Many

" 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. "

" Dogme is like leading a religious life, in that you are freeing yourself from making certain choices. It makes life easier. "

Susanne Bier

Choices

Life

" You don't have to go very far away from Scandinavia to realize what an idyllic society it is. "

" I did learn a lot from 'Things We Lost in the Fire,' but I've learned different things from different films. "

" 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. "