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" I think most of my films all have a certain tone or intensity in them. They are tense, and you kind of anticipate some kind of catastrophe, but you're not quite sure. "

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" I've always been slightly hesitant about generalizing movies made by men and women being different in their nature; I think movies by each director are different. Having said that, I think that it's kind of disgraceful that there aren't more female directors. "

Susanne Bier

Kind

Women

Movies

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

" Women, nowhere in the world, have the kind of important position in society in the amount that they ought to have. "

" I don't feel I have an issue with listening or understanding English in any sort of way. "

" 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

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

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

" Denmark is like a big family of people. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" The main thing as a director, you always want to have a bit of a worry about the material you're going to get yourself into. You want to be a bit scared of it so that you have that excitement of having to climb the mountain. "

" 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. "

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

Susanne Bier

Characters

Many

" I've got this fear of becoming comfortable. "

" I think the lack of automatically feeling, 'Yes, the future is going to be like the present' - that is very much a Jewish thing. "

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

" 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. "

" If I go home from a day of shooting, and I haven't at some point felt the magic, I'm really frustrated. "

" I think possibly, as an artist, you're always treated with a certain respect but also with a certain sort of nervousness. "

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

" 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. "

" I see myself as a storyteller. "

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

" 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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "