For me, grief is a static thing, and my movies have an extremely dynamic sort of movement.
From Susanne Bier
In reality most people aren't as perfect as they want to seem.
Oftentimes, reality is much worse than what you can put in a movie.
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.
John le Carre's 'The Night Manager' is a relentlessly exhilarating thriller with profound emotional depths.
I've got this fear of becoming comfortable.
I've had a very fortunate, very privileged life. I say it with all humility because it could change tomorrow.
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.
I think the lack of automatically feeling, 'Yes, the future is going to be like the present' - that is very much a Jewish thing.
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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