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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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Young, Bring, I See, Lonesome

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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Sense Of Humor, Danish, Sensibility

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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Been, I Think, Slightly, Being Different

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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Desire, Very, Almost, Whomever

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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Process, About, Which, Convenient

I think most of my films all have a certain tone or intensity in them. They are tense, and you kind of anticipate some kind of catastrophe, but you're not quite sure.

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Think, Some, Films, Anticipate

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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Shooting, Half, Lot, Rehearsals

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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Think, Been, Travelling, Copenhagen

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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Movie, Which, Architect, Blueprint

There are certain things you cannot accept. There are certain things that human beings cannot tolerate.

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Things, Certain Things, Tolerate

John le Carre's 'The Night Manager' is a relentlessly exhilarating thriller with profound emotional depths.

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Night, Manager, Profound, Depths

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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More, Been, About, Possibly

I think possibly, as an artist, you're always treated with a certain respect but also with a certain sort of nervousness.

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Think, Always, Treated, Possibly

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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Over, Third World, We Cannot, OK

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.

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Rules, Been, Point, Interpreted

People don't necessarily do evil deeds because they want to; people happen to do something with horrible consequences even if they meant to be kind.

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Happen, Deeds, Meant, Meant To Be

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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Edit, Sat, Many, Sitting

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

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Learn, Films, Learned, Different Things

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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Worry, Always, Having, Scared

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.

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Straightforward, Means, Understood

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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Strong, Think, I Think, Scandinavian

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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Brown, Had, Felt, Scandinavian

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.

- Susanne Bier

Winter, Some, I Think, Assume

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

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Pretty, Stories, Brutal, Tales

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.

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Some, Very, Treatment, Nurse

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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Society, Important, Amount, Ought

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

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Will, Danish, Lot, Denmark

Denmark is like a big family of people.

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Big, Big Family, Like, Denmark

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

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Movies, Static, Extremely, Grief

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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Wonderful, Richard, Films, Grief

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