Lars Von Trier Quotes

"Visible good easily becomes trite; visually there is very little material left-you know, you make a sunbeam pass over a character or a situation and it becomes far too pathetic and banal."
-Lars Von Trier

"My transgression, which I have confessed to countless times, that I used stand-ins in the sex-scene is also of a grave nature because it was essential for me to include that effect. Again this means that you are manipulating-that you want to control things."
-Lars Von Trier

"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."
-Lars Von Trier

"I'd toyed with a couple of ideas beforehand, but I hadn't written a single cue, and it was a wonderful feeling to just write away."
-Lars Von Trier

"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."
-Lars Von Trier

"Perhaps it sounds pretentious, but in one way or another I hope that you can see that every image contains an idea. It certainly sounds presumptuous-and perhaps it's also untruthful. But as I see it, every image and every cut is thought out. They are not there by chance."
-Lars Von Trier

"One morning I greeted the cast naked in the front drive and insisted that today was to be a nude day. No, we didn't have any nudity problems."
-Lars Von Trier

"If you tell a man what to do in real life, to which extent is it reality and to which extent are you in control?"
-Lars Von Trier