Susanne Bier

I hate when the sun is high and there are no shadows. If I could do super high-budget movies, I would only shoot when the sun starts to get low - but you can't just shoot for four hours every day.

For me, grief is a static thing, and my movies have an extremely dynamic sort of movement.

I generally edit quite heavily. In general, there aren't many scenes that are sitting where they sat in the script in the final form.

I'm thankful I don't have parents that I feel I need to get their attention. They've always been there for me.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.