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Lars von Trier

(1956) Film Director Kingdom of Denmark

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Lars von Trier is a film director from the Kingdom of Denmark, best known for Dancer in the dark.

Quick Facts About Lars von Trier

Born: April 30, 1956
Nationality: Kingdom of Denmark
Profession: Film Director
Notable works: Dancer in the dark
Known for: Dogville, Breaking the Waves, Europa, Manderlay, Dancer in the Dark
Spouse: Cæcilia Holbek Trier

About Lars von Trier

Lars von Trier is a Danish film director and screenwriter.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix César Award for Best Foreign Film Sonning Prize European Film Academy Critics Award European Film Academy Achievement in World Cinema Award European Film Award - People's Choice Award for Best Director Konrad Wolf Prize Goya Award for Best European Film

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Danish Dramatics' Honorary Award Kjeld Abell Prize Bodil Honorary Award Statens Kunstfonds hædersydelse Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog Allen Award Jury Prize Palme d'Or European Film Award for Best Film

Quotes by Lars von Trier

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…

American woman

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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

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I think that sexuality is the part of human beings that is closest to nature. And nature is dangerous somehow, yes, if…

Dangerous

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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…

Cinema

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I think that limitations are the most important part of any art form

Art

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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…

Beneficial

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Just the fact that you're working is good for you.

Work

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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…

Drinking

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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…

Entering

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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…

Art

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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…

Cinema

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I sit there pouring out my woes year after year, coming up with one enormity after another about my mother and the…

About

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When I show a film at a festival, I am showing myself. Everything is at stake for me.

Cinema

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The secret ingredient to sex is love.

Ingredients

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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…

Chess

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Everything is going to hell, but we should smile all the way.

Hell

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“Perhaps the only difference between me and other people is that I’ve always demanded more from the sunset. More spectacular colors when…

Movie

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A film has to be like a stone in the shoe.

Cinema

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Actors need bricks to play with, and in fact we rejected all the improvised fragments we had made without a plan. Improvisation…

Actor

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My films generally center around thousands of pictures being flashed in rapid succession to create the illusion of motion.

Cinema

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I am crazy about time cuts. I have a theory that the audience tie everything together so they don't see time cuts…

Audience

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Perhaps the only difference between me and other people is that Ive always demanded more from the sunset,

Differences

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I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden.

Emotion

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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,…

Feels

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One of the things that got me thinking during therapy is that they say that fear is only thoughts, and nothing will…

Antichrist

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Lars von Trier by topic

Film (18) Cinema (16) Thinking (10)