Lars von Trier Quotes

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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.
• 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…
• I am a man of very many anxieties but doing strange things with the camera is not one of them.
• 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…
• Everything is going to hell, but we should smile all the way.
• I am the best film director in the world.
• 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…
• If you want to provoke, you should provoke someone who is stronger than you, otherwise you are misusing your power.
• I encouraged the cast to make up their own lines.
• It is more difficult to manipulate with film than, for instance, video. The problem with video is that it gives you a thousand possibilities.
• 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…
• I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden.
• I always do something that I've never done before.
• I had an almost fetishistic attraction to film technology.
• I'm having a vacation, and it's so beautiful, and maybe I'll never get another film idea in my life.
• It's always been a lie that it's difficult to make films.
• 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…
• 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,…
• I understand Hitler... I sympathize with him a bit
• My films generally center around thousands of pictures being flashed in rapid succession to create the illusion of motion.

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