Susanne Bier

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.

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

My favorite hobby is matchmaking. It's a lot easier to do it in movies then in real life because in real life, people don't do what I tell them to do.

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.

At some stage in most people's lives, things turn upside down, and nothing is as you expected it to be.

The foundations of our lives are far more fragile than we think. So we are severely shaken when life turns out to have a will of its own.

I've had a very fortunate, very privileged life. I say it with all humility because it could change tomorrow.

A significant number of women who have been ill or had marital issues feel they have no value, and society is so keen on telling us that's the case.

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.

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.

Anders Thomas Jensen and I had talked about making a movie which addressed the cancer issue, and we didn't 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.

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.