Susanne Bier Quotes

I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at - not copy it.

If it were all in the script, why make the film?

To me, the ultimate crime in an adaptation is the crime of reverence. A novel is one form of media, a screenplay is another, and a movie is yet another. There's even reverence to a screenplay.

I don't make films to reproduce reality.

I think plays deserve other interpretations. They should live on, and other people should should take their hand at them. I'm very supportive of that.

Almost anything can be justified as a style of filmmaking if it works.

I always like to get a role where I think, 'Ah, I know this is probably going to be played like this, but I'm going to do it like this.'

In 'The Serpent's Egg,' I created a Berlin which no one recognized, not even I.

There are times when a film turns out differently from how it was narrated. But I don't look at it as a bad thing.

I did not want to do things the way they are usually done in Hindi cinema.

The poets are almost always wrong about the facts... That's because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth...

I think artists are going to express things from an emotional point of view, that's their job, to suggest and interpret, and report what they witness. That's their job as artists, you're looking for the rub, where's the rub, you're a storyteller, you're looking for the rub, not necessarily the solutions, or you're not necessarily educated, you're not the winner of a debate contest, a national debate contest, you're not necessarily a person who has a doctorate in anything.

Artists are people who are not at all interested in the facts - only in the truth.

He found it was as easy to hurl beauty as anything else. (On Robert Mapplethorpe)

Art must take reality by surprise. It takes those moments which are for us merely a moment, plus a moment, plus another moment, and arbitrarily transforms them into a special series of moments held together by a major emotion.

This is one of the ways fiction is more liberating than nonfiction - I don't have to be so concerned with fact. I had the paradigm of certain people in my head who became my characters, but I never considered these people to be from a "certain sector of society," unless we agree that we're all from certain sectors of society.

As an actor, most of the time, you only have so much say in how, what and where things go. As a director, you really get to paint a bigger picture. You have many more brushes to use.

In art, as long as you have ideas and think, you are bound to deform nature. Art is deformation.

I'm not precious about anything. The effort it took to get something means nothing to me in post.And it means nothing to the audience. I'll chop limbs off. I'll put an arm where a leg should be. I'll do anything.

I think myself that, rather like books, music is meant to enter into the brain, well via your ears rather than your eyes but, it's - I think a lot more should be left to the imagination.

I like to keep the meanings in my work flowing and open.

The greatest thing about music is putting it out there for people to figure out.

Each movie is different because each audience is different. You're not dictated by what they tell you to do. You're more dictated by seeing symptoms of things you didn't intend, and how you can fix those symptoms.

The work of art is the exaggeration of an idea.

The artist is not the transcriber of the world, he is its rival.