Susanne Bier Quotes

My films are so new and unique that I don't know where I will end up. Fear keeps me alert. And it's also a part of an excitement.

Much of the excitement we get out of our work is that we don't really know what we are doing.

You've gotta dive into the abyss if you wanna get anything good. Every record, you've gotta go down in the abyss and hope that you come out of it alive.

I'm in the camp that needs to discover and take risks, sometimes it's with the promise of something special and new, sometimes it's to stay awake, either way it's much more stressful with all the uncertainty but worth the pain in the end.

A lot of people ask me, 'What is your goal now that you have done everything?' And I always say that my goal is to not be bored by what I do. The only way that I cannot be bored by what I do is if I play something and it's all new to me.

Art is like turning corners, one never knows what is around the corner until one has made the turn.

If your work isn't exciting, doesn't stir the emotions, where's the challenge? Where's the progress if you always play it safe?

I'm not an artist, and I want to take risks, and when the possibility of failure occurs, it's because the idea is all exciting or interesting as a high wire act, and sometimes you've got to fall off, just by virtue of the fact that you're constantly trying to evolve and do new things.

I'm an artist, and I like the risk - I'm not in it for the sure things.

Part of the excitement of doing independent film is the complete unknown of what lies in store for the film's future.

The coolest things in life are things that you have not done before. That's the key to life: new things always.

What I enjoy most is doing something I've never done before.

From the very beginning, I've always just wanted to do something I've never done before. I'm still just trying to be on that path. It's all about working with filmmakers that you believe in.

I think that every artistic venture is a risk, and it has to be that way, so you do as much preparation as you can and make that as thorough as you can possibly make it, until you turn up on set. It's about taking risks, and some might work and some might not, but that's what makes it interesting.

I like to experiment, and my life has been eventful.

I want to be scared. I want to keep taking insane risks. I want to be scared because you're going to grow through that whether you want to or not. I don't want to play the same guy. I want to keep throwing curveballs to you guys and keep telling stories.

What I love most about this crazy life is the adventure of it.

I always try to keep that feeling of being on the edge. I'm afraid of knowing too well and seeming mechanical.

A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.

When I'm making stuff, the thing that excites me most is not the result, but the process and trying to do something I've never done before.

There's a way of playing safe, there's a way of using tricks and there's the way I like to play which is dangerously where you're going to take a chance on making mistakes in order to create something you haven't created before.

I like to surprise myself. I've always been attracted to projects where I don't know how they're going to turn out.

I'm never doing anything by rote. I'm only on thin ice, and I think that that's a good place to be. I feel like when you push yourself like that, the rewards can be pretty great.

I'm someone who likes plowing new ground, then walking away from it. I get bored easily. For me, the big thrill comes with the discovering.

Life will be interesting only when there is an element of surprise in it.