Lars Von Trier Quotes

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

You know, I really do have some morals. I do actually care about people. And I do have a political standpoint.

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.

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

If people do not laugh it's not comedy.

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

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.

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

Basically, I'm afraid of everything in life, except filmmaking.

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

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

The secret ingredient to sex is love.

I understand Hitler ... I sympathize with him a bit

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.

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

I had an almost fetishistic attraction to film technology.

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

I am the best film director in the world.

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

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.

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

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

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

I always do something that I've never done before.

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

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

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.

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

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

Nature is Satan's church.

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

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

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

I encouraged the cast to make up their own lines.

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

A film should be like a rock in the shoe.

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