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Lars Von Trier

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

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    A film should be like a rock in the shoe.

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    Evil gives you far more strings to pull. But I must say that I have never been interested in the psychology of evil, not in the slightest. Perhaps I'm not interested in evil, but in the dark sides of human beings.

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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 my opinion there is only one way: follow the rules.

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    I am a man of very many anxieties but doing strange things with the camera is not one of them.

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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.

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    I am not very tough with raising my children, but you can argue that to be more tough will help your children.

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    I am the best film director in the world.

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

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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.

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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 in evil.

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    I encouraged the cast to make up their own lines.

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    If anyone would like to hit me, they are perfectly welcome. I must warn you, though, that I might enjoy it. So maybe it's not the right kind of punishment.

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    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 cakes and whatever, but these techniques are something that I’ve left behind me.

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    If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.

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    If you want to provoke, you should provoke someone who is stronger than you, otherwise you are misusing your power.

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

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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.

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    I had an almost fetishistic attraction to film technology.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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    I’m having a vacation and it’s so beautiful and maybe I’ll never get another film idea in my life.

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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.

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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.

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    I think its a very strange question that I have to defend myself. I don’t feel that. You are all my guests, it’s not the other way around, that’s how I feel.

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    I think it's important that we all try to give something to this medium, instead of just thinking about what is the most efficient way of telling a story or making an audience stay in a cinema.

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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 you put nature against civilisation, nature is definitely a threat.

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    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.

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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.

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

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    It’s the opening of Manderlay in Cannes, and I’m sitting next to this guy who’s writing for a tiny fictitious French paper called ‘On the Sunny Side,’ and he’s writing a review on the film, and he’s obviously bored. Then he tells me about all the cars he owns, and how rich he is, and all these things... So, at a certain point, he says, "So what do you do?" Then I take out this very strange hammer we have in the Danish building business, and I say, "I kill." And then I kill him. It is as stupid as it sounds.

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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.

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

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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 happen because thoughts will never be real. And my thesis, or joke, in film Antichrist, is that they really do become real.

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    Only a fool does not fear actors, but you can't beat them, and if you can't beat them, join them, as they say. As I've got older I've become very interested in that part of the work

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

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    Political correctness kills discussion.

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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

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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.

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    There is no creative expression of artistic value that has ever been produced by ex-drunkards and ex-drug-addicts. Who the hell would bother with a Rolling Stones without booze or with a Jimi Hendrix without heroin?

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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.

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    The secret ingredient to sex is love.

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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 music and art to contain a touch of melancholia. So melancholia in itself is a value. Unhappy and unrequited love is more romantic than happy love. For we don’t think that’s completely real, do we?…Longing is true. It may be that there’s no truth at all to long for, but the longing itself is true. Just like pain is true. We feel it inside. It’s part of our reality.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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    You could say that when you introduce humour to your work, you also step back a little from it. You create a distance