Susanne Bier Quotes

Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline.

The more restrictions you have, the easier anything is to write.

The Weinsteins believe in test screenings. I don't. I don't think good films are made that way. Call me crazy, but I'd like to think you need a singular vision to make good art.

There couldn't be better parents than mine, loving yet strict. They disciplined with love. A child without discipline is, in away, a lost child. You cannot have freedom without discipline.

I don't pay much attention to the press. My films always get good reviews and bad reviews. I just try to make the best film I can.

I won't say I am a strict mother, but discipline is important. Timing and routine are important for kids.

Many dogs grow up without rules or boundaries. They need exercise, discipline and affection in that order.

I'm going to be a strict mum. I know that love is the most important thing - you've got to have lots of kisses and cuddles - but you also need to mix it with discipline or you'll be in a heap of trouble.

I am not very tough with raising my children, but you can argue that to be more tough will help your children.

I don't know if I'm a strict parent or a pushover.

Dogme is like leading a religious life, in that you are freeing yourself from making certain choices. It makes life easier.

For the longest time, you just sound like a broken record, but you have to be consistent when teaching kids.

I respond very well to rules. If there are certain parameters it's much easier to do something really good. Especially when readers know what those are. They know what to expect and then you have to wrong-foot them. That is the trick of crime fiction. And readers come to crime and graphic novels wanting to be entertained, or disgusted.

Children are becoming disobedient... why, because of the lack of rules boundaries and limitations.

I am very sure that my children thrive on structure and need boundaries. I know my children need to know what time they are going to bed or how many more minutes until they are leaving for school, and so I have imposed a structure that allows them to know where they are all day long, every day in life.

I'm not a yeller. But I am strict.

If people are coming in in dribs and drabs, it doesn't look good. You have to have standards and have rules to adhere to. If you have that then it carries on into the training.

You have to have a certain amount of limitations, I think, to make art and to make something that can be alive on film. Money can get in the way of that.

My mom, she's the strict one. If we did something bad, we'd get a whippin' but nothing too bad.

Television will always err on the side of making something not quite as classy as it could be.

I believe in limitations. I think the worst art ever made - in my opinion, because it's all so subjective - is where the artist had complete freedom.

You can't expect to connect with everybody, and that's all right. The more I make films, I'm learning that you don't have to make films for everybody. A film can be made for a smaller group of people than that, and it still warrants an existence.

I always think if I'd had kids that I'd manage them like I do my dog Margaret: camps, playdates, naps, and lots of snacks. They'd all be fat.

Missing a game or getting a little bit of a bump up or getting a scolding once in a while puts everybody in their right place.

I would never make a film because I think it's going to be a box-office success.