Lars von Trier famous quotes
Last updated: Jul 22, 2024
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Everything is going to hell, but we should smile all the way.
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Far be it from me to force anyone into either chess or dressage, but if you choose to do so yourself, in my opinion there is only one way: follow the rules.
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Basically, I'm afraid of everything in life, except filmmaking.
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If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.
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I think it's important that we all try to give something to this medium, instead of just thinking about what is the most efficient way of telling a story or making an audience stay in a cinema.
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My films generally center around thousands of pictures being flashed in rapid succession to create the illusion of motion.
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I think it's a very strange question that I have to defend myself. I don't feel that. You are all my guests, it's not the other way around, that's how I feel.
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If I made a musical in the beginning of my career, it would have been crane shots and tracking shots and people coming out of cakes and whatever, but these techniques are something that I've left behind me.
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I'm very proud of being persona non grata. I've never been that before in my life, and that suits me extremely wellI'm known for provocations, but I like provocations when they have a purpose. And this had no purpose whatsoever. Because I'm not Mel Gibson. I'm definitely not Mel Gibson.
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I understand Hitler... I sympathize with him a bit
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Only a fool does not fear actors, but you can't beat them, and if you can't beat them, join them, as they say. As I've got older I've become very interested in that part of the work
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That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, so you don't have to worry about them
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I'm having a vacation, and it's so beautiful, and maybe I'll never get another film idea in my life.
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I had an almost fetishistic attraction to film technology.
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More than anything, there are more images in evil. Evil is based far more on the visual, whereas good has no good images at all.
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I come from a family of communist nudists. I was allowed to do or not do what I liked. My parents were not interested in whether I went to school or got drunk on white wine.
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I am a man of very many anxieties but doing strange things with the camera is not one of them.
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I'm not a woman! Let's make that very clear! Oh I don't know, maybe I am. I am an American woman. Or 65 percent of me is.
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When I was in film school, it was said that all good films were characterised by some form of humour.
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True values entail suffering. That’s the way we think. All in all, we tend to view melancholia as more true. We prefer music and art to contain a touch of melancholia. So melancholia in itself is a value. Unhappy and unrequited love is more romantic than happy love. For we don’t think that’s completely real, do we?…Longing is true. It may be that there’s no truth at all to long for, but the longing itself is true. Just like pain is true. We feel it inside. It’s part of our reality.
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I always do something that I've never done before.
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I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden.
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When I was younger, I was fascinated by David Bowie, for example. he had created an entire myth around himself. It was as important as his music.
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It is more difficult to manipulate with film than, for instance, video. The problem with video is that it gives you a thousand possibilities.
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I encouraged the cast to make up their own lines.
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If you want to provoke, you should provoke someone who is stronger than you, otherwise you are misusing your power.
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The risk is that you furnish the project with new suggestions to try and freshen it up; it's not always beneficial. You risk betraying the original intention with the story, forgetting what it is you really want to portray.
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You know, I really do have some morals. I do actually care about people. And I do have a political standpoint.
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I think that limitations are the most important part of any art form
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There is no creative expression of artistic value that has ever been produced by ex-drunkards and ex-drug-addicts. Who the hell would bother with a Rolling Stones without booze or with a Jimi Hendrix without heroin?
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I would say that I am a poor Christian; I'm not a believer. It was this idea very early in my life that life on Earth, nature or man could not be a creation of a merciful God.
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I know that I cannot be with a person for three hours without saying at least ten things that would kill me.
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I am not very tough with raising my children, but you can argue that to be more tough will help your children.
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When I show a film at a festival, I am showing myself. Everything is at stake for me.
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You could say that when you introduce humour to your work, you also step back a little from it. You create a distance
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It's always been a lie that it's difficult to make films.
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Perhaps the only difference between me and other people is that Ive always demanded more from the sunset,
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A film has to be like a stone in the shoe.
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