Quotes from Susanne Bier

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

I have this almost obsessive desire to whomever is close to me: I want to have a very intense, close, intimate relationship with them.

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

Oftentimes, reality is much worse than what you can put in a movie.

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.

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

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

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.

None of my movies are autobiographical.

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.