Lars von Trier Quotes - Page 2

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• 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

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• 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 his music.

  Lars von Trier

  Important, Example, Bowie

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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, but I like provocations when they have a purpose. And this had no purpose whatsoever. Because I'm not Mel Gibson. I'm definitely not Mel Gibson.

  Lars von Trier

  Purpose, Proud, Suits

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• I know that I cannot be with a person for three hours without saying at least ten things that would kill me.

  Lars von Trier

  Three, Hours, Kill Me

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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

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• Political correctness kills discussion.

  Lars von Trier

  Political, Political Correctness, Discussion

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Lars von Trier

  Film, Illusion, Rapids

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• When I was in film school, it was said that all good films were characterised by some form of humour.

  Lars von Trier

  School, Film, Form

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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 is what came out of it.

  Lars von Trier

  Drinking, Frustration, Trying

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• It is more difficult to manipulate with film than, for instance, video. The problem with video is that it gives you a thousand possibilities.

  Lars von Trier

  Giving, Video, Problem

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• 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 whether I went to school or got drunk on white wine.

  Lars von Trier

  Wine, School, White

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• I understand Hitler... I sympathise with him a little bit.

  Lars von Trier

  Bits

  " Lars von Trier provokes Cannes with 'I'm a Nazi' comments" by Charlotte Higgins, www.theguardian.com. May 18, 2011.

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

  Lars von Trier

  Strong, Home, Emotion

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• It's always been a lie that it's difficult to make films.

  Lars von Trier

  Lying, Film, Difficult

  "INTERVIEW: Lars von Trier Comes Out of the Dark". Interview with Anthony Kaufman, www.indiewire.com. September 22, 2000.

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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 risk betraying the original intention with the story, forgetting what it is you really want to portray.

  Lars von Trier

  Betrayal, Risk, Trying

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• I encouraged the cast to make up their own lines.

  Lars von Trier

  Lines, Casts

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

  Lars von Trier

  Festivals, Film, Stakes

  "Interview: Lars von Trier" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. July 11, 2009.

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• I always do something that I’ve never done before...

  Lars von Trier

  Done

  "INTERVIEW: Lars von Trier Comes Out of the Dark". Interview with Anthony Kaufman, www.indiewire.com. September 22, 2000.

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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 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

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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 about them

  Lars von Trier

  Worry, Entering, Great Things

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• I would say that I am a poor Christian; I'm not a believer. It was this idea very early in my life that life on Earth, nature or man could not be a creation of a merciful God.

  Lars von Trier

  Christian, Men, Ideas

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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 me is.

  Lars von Trier

  Clear, Percent, Knows

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

  Lars von Trier

  Film, Mark, Ability

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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