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" If you look at children's stories in fairy tales, they're pretty brutal. "
Susanne Bier
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" There are certain things you cannot accept. There are certain things that human beings cannot tolerate. "
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" I think it's extremely difficult consistently being a decent human being. "
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" 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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" 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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" John le Carre's 'The Night Manager' is a relentlessly exhilarating thriller with profound emotional depths. "
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" We always want to find good and bad guys, and I don't believe in that. "
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" You win an Oscar, and the movie that comes after that is always going to be compared. "
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" 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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" 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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" 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. "
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" I've got this fear of becoming comfortable. "
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" 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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" 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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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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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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" I don't want actors to be writers. I think it's too much responsibility. "
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Too Much
Want
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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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" 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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" Denmark is like a big family of people. "
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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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" I think the lack of automatically feeling, 'Yes, the future is going to be like the present' - that is very much a Jewish thing. "
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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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" Women, nowhere in the world, have the kind of important position in society in the amount that they ought to have. "
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" 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 spaces, which is what you do as an architect, is really the same as a sequence of scenes. "
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Building
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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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" In reality most people aren't as perfect as they want to seem. "
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