Popular Quotes by Lars Von Trier

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• Actors need bricks to play with, and in fact we rejected all the improvised fragments we had made without a plan. Improvisation without a plan is like tennis without tennis balls.

  Lars von Trier#Balls 66

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• 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.

  Lars von Trier#Anything 47

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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.

  Lars von Trier#Create 46

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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.

  Lars von Trier#Bowie 42

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• Nature is Satans church.

  Lars Von Trier#Nature 40

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• I had an almost fetishistic attraction to film technology.

  Lars von Trier#Technology 26

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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.

  Lars von Trier#Anyone 23

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

  Lars von Trier#Characterised 22

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

  Lars von Trier#Culturally 22

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

  Lars von Trier#Apart 18

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