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" Parents can shape a child, but a great teacher can, too. "
Susanne Bier
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" 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. "
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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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Care
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" In a way, our family is our modern identity. "
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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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" In reality most people aren't as perfect as they want to seem. "
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People
Want
Reality
" Having done a Dogme film taught me the beauty of simplicity and austerity. "
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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. "
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World
" If I go home from a day of shooting, and I haven't at some point felt the magic, I'm really frustrated. "
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Shooting
Day
Home
" 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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Want
Kind
Forget
" I see myself as a storyteller. "
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I See
Myself
See
" 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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Best
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Need
" 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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Future
Present
Think
" I never have particular actors planned when I'm in the process of writing. "
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Writing
Never
Planned
" Denmark is like a big family of people. "
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People
Big
Big Family
" There are certain things you cannot accept. There are certain things that human beings cannot tolerate. "
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Cannot
You
Things
" 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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Colleagues
Think
Strong
" 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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Own
Think
More
" 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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Women
Important
World
" I think it's extremely difficult consistently being a decent human being. "
Susanne Bier
Human
Human Being
Difficult
" 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
" 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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Hope
Romantic
Cancer
" 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. "
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Mountain
Yourself
You
" I've had a very fortunate, very privileged life. I say it with all humility because it could change tomorrow. "
Susanne Bier
Life
Change
Tomorrow
" None of my movies are autobiographical. "
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Movies
None
Autobiographical
" 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. "
Susanne Bier
Rules
Yourself
Said
" 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. "
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You
Shadows
Movies
" 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. "
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Time
People
Moment
" 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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Believe
Thought
Good
" 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
" 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. "
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