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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. "

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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. "

Susanne Bier

Myself

Work

Try

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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

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

" 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 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. "

" 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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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