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" I think it's extremely difficult consistently being a decent human being. "
Susanne Bier
Human
Human Being
Difficult
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" I have a slight controversy with the Dogme brethren because I've been saying that rules are to be interpreted; not that I haven't followed the rules, because I don't see the point of submitting yourself to a set of rules if you don't follow them. But having said that, it is always a lot of interpretation. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I have this almost obsessive desire to whomever is close to me: I want to have a very intense, close, intimate relationship with them. "
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" Denmark is like a big family of people. "
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" For me, grief is a static thing, and my movies have an extremely dynamic sort of movement. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Work
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" 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. "
Susanne Bier
Problem
Over
World
" 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. "
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Movies
Bored
Colors
" 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. "
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Change
Over
Morning
" 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 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. "
Susanne Bier
Human
Feel
Humor
" I think possibly, as an artist, you're always treated with a certain respect but also with a certain sort of nervousness. "
Susanne Bier
Respect
You
Always
" There are certain things you cannot accept. There are certain things that human beings cannot tolerate. "
Susanne Bier
Cannot
You
Things
" 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
" If I go home from a day of shooting, and I haven't at some point felt the magic, I'm really frustrated. "
Susanne Bier
Shooting
Day
Home
" Having done a Dogme film taught me the beauty of simplicity and austerity. "
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Done
Beauty
Simplicity
" I've had a very fortunate, very privileged life. I say it with all humility because it could change tomorrow. "
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Life
Change
Tomorrow
" 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.' "
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Hand
Paper
Say
" 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. "
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You
Acceptance
Family
" At some stage in most people's lives, things turn upside down, and nothing is as you expected it to be. "
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Nothing
People
Upside Down
" I did learn a lot from 'Things We Lost in the Fire,' but I've learned different things from different films. "
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Lost
Things
Fire
" I don't feel I have an issue with listening or understanding English in any sort of way. "
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Feel
Any
Way
" 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. "
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Process
Way
Excitement
" A lot of people who live in Denmark will understand Danish but not necessarily speak it. "
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Speak
Live
Will
" Dogme is like leading a religious life, in that you are freeing yourself from making certain choices. It makes life easier. "
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Like
" If you look at children's stories in fairy tales, they're pretty brutal. "
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