Susanne Bier Quotes

I was one of those avid moviegoers as a kid, and we didn't have video, so we went to see everything five times. I went to see every foreign film playing in my town. As times went on, I watched a lot less films. I have a different film school now. My film school now is my life experience.

Watching movies was like going to school for me. It still is. You're always learning. Even if it's bad, you're learning what not to do.

I try and watch as many different films as I can because every film has something to offer.

I love film, and I think it's so important for kids to be educated about films and real life subjects that films cover.

More people should read books. It's the most concentrated experience you can have.

I watched aspirationally. I looked at movies that maybe I didn't entirely understand but which developed in me some thirst for their subjects or for their context, and that became part of how I came to understand the world.

Every film you see at a festival teaches you something.

If children are given some real content, they can feel powerful with their own understanding of it. I think a movie like 'Indian in the Cupboard' will instruct them how to proceed as people. They can think about whether they would have done something the way a character did, how they would have felt about an event in the story.

I've been watching some film, understanding what I can work on, what I can get better at.

You can learn from everybody.

'Main Hoon Na' will always be special since it was my first film but in my subsequent films, I was trying to show off with gimmicks that didn't aid the narrative in any way.

Kendrick Lamar taught me that life experience is an important part of being a good illustrator. When you're illustrating a story, you have to go based off of your personal experiences.

Every experience, good or bad, is a learning process.

When I talk to older people, they're like, 'you know what Karen? Life will always offer you new situations where you'll feel totally inexperienced.' But I think that's a good thing because without struggle you don't learn anything, and if you stop learning, you stop living, you know?

For me, it is not about being a part of a hit or a flop. Films are about friends, learning, and experiences. Certain films give me happiness.

I think everything you do in life is a learning experience.

Every experience you have in life can be applied to different things.

Most of the films that I do help me learn something.

It is very important to learn. And I try to learn from everything around me.

I learnt so much from all my films, successful or unsuccessful.

One of my strengths is I learn, and I like to learn from all sorts of people in all walks of life.

When I did my first film, I had a fair idea of what I liked and what I didn't while watching an actor in front of the camera. After I finished the film, I thought I had exhausted everything I knew. As I moved from one story, setting and character to another, I discovered something new.

What is education but a process by which a person begins to learn how to learn?

No day in which you learn something is a complete loss.

What is a college? An institute of learning. What is a business? An institute of learning. Life, itself, is an institute of learning.