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> [Lars von Trier is very, very, very clever about women. He gives the woman a space that I don't know any filmmaker does. Because in Breaking The Waves, protagonist Emily Watson is the Christ. Which man is doing that? I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chantal-akerman/lars-von-trier-is-very-very-very-clever-about-women-he-gives-the/)

[Chantal Akerman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chantal-akerman/)

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> [Look at Charlotte Gainsbourg, in the Lars von Trier film Antichrist. She's unbelievable. She doesn't act; she's there. She's great. And you love her for that, because it's so daring, what she has to do. And she does it as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chantal-akerman/look-at-charlotte-gainsbourg-in-the-lars-von-trier-film-antichrist/)

[Chantal Akerman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chantal-akerman/)

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## Other authors on Von Trier

## More by Chantal Akerman

> [First I went to a Jewish school, when I was very little. But when I was 12, they put me in a school with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chantal-akerman/first-i-went-to-a-jewish-school-when-i-was-very-little-but-when-i-was/)

[Chantal Akerman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chantal-akerman/)

> [She who seeks shall find, find all to well, and end up clouding her vision with her own preconceptions.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chantal-akerman/she-who-seeks-shall-find-find-all-to-well-and-end-up-clouding-her/)

[Chantal Akerman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chantal-akerman/)

> [Delphine Seyrig is a very proper woman, from high society. She's from the Ferdinand de Saussure family, the structuralist. Old money. Swiss. Protestant. They…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chantal-akerman/delphine-seyrig-is-a-very-proper-woman-from-high-society-she-s-from/)

[Chantal Akerman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chantal-akerman/)

> [Paris is not so square. I'm not good at the geography of the city in Paris, so I'm always lost. Here, in New York,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chantal-akerman/paris-is-not-so-square-i-m-not-good-at-the-geography-of-the-city-in/)

[Chantal Akerman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chantal-akerman/)

> [What I think is dreadful about art is the way it's related to the money afterward. Not when you do it... But after that,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chantal-akerman/what-i-think-is-dreadful-about-art-is-the-way-it-s-related-to-the/)

[Chantal Akerman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chantal-akerman/)

> [Lars von Trier is very, very, very clever about women. He gives the woman a space that I don't know any filmmaker does. Because…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chantal-akerman/lars-von-trier-is-very-very-very-clever-about-women-he-gives-the/)

[Chantal Akerman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chantal-akerman/)

> [I went at 4:30 in the morning to a café 500 meters from my place. And it was another city... Totally different than where…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chantal-akerman/i-went-at-4-30-in-the-morning-to-a-caf-500-meters-from-my-place-and/)

[Chantal Akerman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chantal-akerman/)

> [Have you seen the film Histoires D'Amérique? It's also a mixture of humor and monologue, and it shows how the Jewish humor comes from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chantal-akerman/have-you-seen-the-film-histoires-d-am-rique-it-s-also-a-mixture-of/)

[Chantal Akerman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chantal-akerman/)

> [My father said, "Okay, enough with the Jewish school." He put me into a public school and he said, "If you are the first…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chantal-akerman/my-father-said-okay-enough-with-the-jewish-school-he-put-me-into-a/)

[Chantal Akerman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chantal-akerman/)

> [Look at Charlotte Gainsbourg, in the Lars von Trier film Antichrist. She's unbelievable. She doesn't act; she's there. She's great. And you love her…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chantal-akerman/look-at-charlotte-gainsbourg-in-the-lars-von-trier-film-antichrist/)

[Chantal Akerman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chantal-akerman/)

> [You have to understand that I'm a child of the second generation, which means my mother was in Auschwitz, and the aunt of my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chantal-akerman/you-have-to-understand-that-i-m-a-child-of-the-second-generation/)

[Chantal Akerman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chantal-akerman/)

> [I wanted to write and then I saw Pierrot and I understand that I could express myself in a more... Also probably, I had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chantal-akerman/i-wanted-to-write-and-then-i-saw-pierrot-and-i-understand-that-i/)

[Chantal Akerman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chantal-akerman/)

> [I'm Jewish. That's all. So I am in exile all the time. Wherever we go, we are in exile. Even in Israel, we are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chantal-akerman/i-m-jewish-that-s-all-so-i-am-in-exile-all-the-time-wherever-we-go-we/)

[Chantal Akerman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chantal-akerman/)

> [I had an awful joke about Auschwitz I drove everybody crazy with that joke. But that joke makes me feel good. You know what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chantal-akerman/i-had-an-awful-joke-about-auschwitz-i-drove-everybody-crazy-with-that/)

[Chantal Akerman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chantal-akerman/)

> [When I'm in my neighborhood, I don't see anything anymore, because I'm so used to it. When I go somewhere else, suddenly, I'm alive.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chantal-akerman/when-i-m-in-my-neighborhood-i-don-t-see-anything-anymore-because-i-m/)

[Chantal Akerman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chantal-akerman/)

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