Lars von Trier Quotes

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

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

The secret ingredient to sex is love.

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.

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

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.

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

I am crazy about my own films. The films I've just made I'm crazy about them. But then I don't see them for many years. It's like when you get a new child you're very crazy about this child but then after a few years you're like, "what was its name again?"

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

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

A film should be like a rock in the shoe.

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.

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

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?

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.

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.