If you want to provoke, you should provoke someone who is stronger than you, otherwise you are misusing your power.
Lars von TrierMore than anything, there are more images in evil. Evil is based far more on the visual, whereas good has no good images at all.
Lars von TrierThere 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?
Lars von TrierYou could say that when you introduce humour to your work, you also step back a little from it. You create a distance
Lars von Trier