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" There are certain things you cannot accept. There are certain things that human beings cannot tolerate. "
Susanne Bier
Cannot
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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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" 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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" 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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" I don't feel I have an issue with listening or understanding English in any sort of way. "
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" 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. "
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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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" A lot of people who live in Denmark will understand Danish but not necessarily speak it. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" In reality most people aren't as perfect as they want to seem. "
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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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You
" 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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" We always want to find good and bad guys, and I don't believe in that. "
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Good And Bad
Good
Find
" 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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Back
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People
" I think it's extremely difficult consistently being a decent human being. "
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Human
Human Being
Difficult
" 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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" Having done a Dogme film taught me the beauty of simplicity and austerity. "
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Simplicity
" 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.' "
Susanne Bier
Hand
Paper
Say
" 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 generally edit quite heavily. In general, there aren't many scenes that are sitting where they sat in the script in the final form. "
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Sat
Final
Where
" 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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" 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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Clothes
Winter
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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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Forget
" 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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" John le Carre's 'The Night Manager' is a relentlessly exhilarating thriller with profound emotional depths. "
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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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" 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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