I hope my films will never completely be without the ability to mark anybody. — Lars von Trier Copy Share Image
If there are some people that like the film and some people that do not, that's fine for me, because I do… — Lars von Trier Copy Share Image
When I show a film at a festival, I am showing myself. Everything is at stake for me. — Lars von Trier Copy Share Image
I'm having a vacation, and it's so beautiful, and maybe I'll never get another film idea in my life. — Lars von Trier Copy Share Image
My films generally center around thousands of pictures being flashed in rapid succession to create the illusion of motion. — Lars von Trier Copy Share Image
It is more difficult to manipulate with film than, for instance, video. The problem with video is that it gives you a… — Lars von Trier Copy Share Image
We start with a rehearsal where the actors kind of bring what they think should be in the scene. But we film… — Lars von Trier Copy Share Image
When I was in film school, it was said that all good films were characterised by some form of humour. — Lars von Trier Copy Share Image
I can't tell you why I choose stuff, it's really something I don't analyse. The only thing I can say is that… — Lars von Trier Copy Share Image
I am crazy about my own films. The films I've just made I'm crazy about them. But then I don't see them… — Lars von Trier Copy Share Image
I think it's important that we all try to give something to this medium, instead of just thinking about what is the… — Lars von Trier Copy Share Image
One of the things that got me thinking during therapy is that they say that fear is only thoughts, and nothing will… — Lars von Trier Copy Share Image
It’s the opening of Manderlay in Cannes, and I’m sitting next to this guy who’s writing for a tiny fictitious French paper… — Lars von Trier Copy Share Image
The cognitive therapy that takes place in the film Antichrist is a form of therapy that I have used for some time,… — Lars von Trier Copy Share Image
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… — Lars von Trier Copy Share Image
I did a lot of strange things. But I am a bad Catholic that's for sure. Although I think it's difficult to believe in… — Lars von Trier Copy Share Image
I think that sexuality is the part of human beings that is closest to nature. And nature is dangerous somehow, yes, if you put… — Lars von Trier Copy Share Image
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… — Lars von Trier Copy Share Image
I think that limitations are the most important part of any art form — Lars von Trier Copy Share Image
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… — Lars von Trier Copy Share Image
I had a lot of frustrations, and I was drinking far too much, and I was just trying to survive and this is what… — Lars von Trier Copy Share Image
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 — Lars von Trier Copy Share Image
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… — Lars von Trier Copy Share Image
I can't tell you why I choose stuff, it's really something I don't analyse. The only thing I can say is that a film… — Lars von Trier Copy Share Image
I sit there pouring out my woes year after year, coming up with one enormity after another about my mother and the way she… — Lars von Trier Copy Share Image
