Latest Lars von Trier Quotes from Interviews

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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.

  Lars von Trier

  People, Film

  Source: film.avclub.com

• Even if you feel all right, tell the actors you don't have full power, and they will help you.

  Lars von Trier

  Helping

  Source: film.avclub.com

• 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.

  Lars von Trier

  Drinking, Frustration, Trying

  Source: film.avclub.com

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

  Lars von Trier

  Source: film.avclub.com

• 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.

  Lars von Trier

  Cutting, Thinking, Kind

  Source: film.avclub.com

• I think that sexuality is the part of human beings that is closest to nature. And nature is dangerous somehow, yes, if you put nature against civilisation, nature is definitely a threat.

  Lars von Trier

  Thinking, Sexuality, Dangerous

  Source: www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk

• One of the things that got me thinking during therapy is that they say that fear is only thoughts, and nothing will happen because thoughts will never be real. And my thesis, or joke, in film Antichrist, is that they really do become real.

  Lars von Trier

  Real, Thinking, Film

  Source: www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk

• 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.

  Lars von Trier

  Character, People, Fool

  Source: www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk

• 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 has to demand to be made, I don't have a plan of what films I'm going to make. The only thing that I know now is that I'm not too crazy about doing things again that I've been into before.

  Lars von Trier

  Crazy, Film

  Source: www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk

• Unfortunately, on one or both of my shoulders sits lots of anxiety and that is a controlling factor in my life.

  Lars von Trier

  Anxiety, Shoulders, Factors

  Source: www.theguardian.com

• I am crazy about time cuts. I have a theory that the audience tie everything together so they don't see time cuts but the time cuts give us the possibility of jumping in time, which means a psychological evolution can be cut down.

  Lars von Trier

  Crazy, Mean, Cutting

  Source: www.theguardian.com

• 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 evil.

  Lars von Trier

  Believe, Thinking, Evil

  Source: www.theguardian.com

• 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 for many years. It's like when you get a new child you're very crazy about this child but then after a few years you're like, "what was its name again?"

  Lars von Trier

  Children, Crazy, Years

  Source: www.theguardian.com

• I am very romantic about communism even still, but I know terrible things happened.

  Lars von Trier

  Communism, Very Romantic, Terrible

  Source: www.theguardian.com

• If people do not laugh it's not comedy.

  Lars von Trier

  People, Laughing, Comedy

  Source: www.theguardian.com

• I'm fighting against my will to control. I think that is what I am doing. I would like to accept things in life, in all matters of life I would like to accept, but it's so difficult. I think we all have this struggle.

  Lars von Trier

  Struggle, Fighting, Thinking

  Source: www.theguardian.com

• I am a man who likes to control things, and if I can't control them totally I will not control them at all.

  Lars von Trier

  Men, Likes, Ifs

  Source: www.theguardian.com

• I hope my films will never completely be without the ability to mark anybody.

  Lars von Trier

  Film, Mark, Ability

  Source: www.theguardian.com

• 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.

  Lars von Trier

  Jobs, Thinking, Meat

  Source: www.indiewire.com

• I like gardening. I'm really a nature man. I spend as much time as I can in nature. I feel really safe there.

  Lars von Trier

  Men, Gardening, Safe

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com