Quotes by Susanne Bier

I dont feel that Im strictly Danish I dont feel that my sense of humor is strictly Danish or my human sensibility is strictly Danish.

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

My mother has had breast cancer twice. And my mother has always been this very positive human being: a glass-half-full type. Like, when she was in treatment and feeling really bad, she would always talk about some nurse that was particularly nice to her.

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 cant just shoot for four hours every day.

Ive 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 its kind of disgraceful that there arent more female directors.

I think the good thing about Dogme is that it forces you into an extreme sense of reality because theres no artificial light and no set design and all of those icings on the cake that you usually have on a movie.

Having done a Dogme film taught me the beauty of simplicity and austerity.

Anders Thomas Jensen and I had talked about making a movie which addressed the cancer issue, and we didnt 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.