Lars von Trier Quotes
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I encouraged the cast to make up their own lines.
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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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If there are some people that like the film and some people that do not, that's fine for me, because I do not intend to make very broad films.
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Basically, I'm afraid of everything in life, except filmmaking.
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It's always been a lie that it's difficult to make films.
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I am a man who likes to control things, and if I can't control them totally I will not control them at all.
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A film should be like a rock in the shoe.
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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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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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Unfortunately, on one or both of my shoulders sits lots of anxiety and that is a controlling factor in my life.
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The cognitive therapy that takes place in the film Antichrist is a form of therapy that I have used for some time, and it has to do with confronting your fears. I would say that especially the part of the film that has to do with therapy is humoristic because people who know about this form of therapy would know that the character is more than a fool.
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I am the best film director in the world.
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I hope my films will never completely be without the ability to mark anybody.
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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'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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Perhaps the only difference between me and other people is that Ive always demanded more from the sunset.
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Everything is going to hell, but we should smile all the way.
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I had a lot of frustrations, and I was drinking far too much, and I was just trying to survive and this is what came out of it.
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If people do not laugh it's not comedy.
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We start with a rehearsal where the actors kind of bring what they think should be in the scene. But we film everything, and we use cuts of this first take, also.
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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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Political correctness kills discussion.
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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 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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I think working with actors is a little bit how a chef would work with a potato or a piece of meat. You have to kind of have a look at the potato or the piece of meat and see what kind of possibilities are in the ingredient. I know I'm using the wrong metaphor. I think my job is to see what potato is there and from there, just work under their conditions.
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A film has to be like a stone in the shoe.
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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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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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