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Lars von Trier [1956-0] Danish

Rank: 103
Director, Film director

Lars von Trier is a Danish film director and screenwriter, best known for his films Dancer in the Dark, Breaking the Waves, Melancholia, and Europa. He has a prolific and controversial career spanning almost four decades.

Fear, Music

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When I show a film at a festival, I am showing myself. Everything is at stake for me.		101
Basically, I'm afraid of everything in life, except filmmaking.		102
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.	Music	103
If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.		104
It's always been a lie that it's difficult to make films.		105
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.		106
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.		107
If you want to provoke, you should provoke someone who is stronger than you, otherwise you are misusing your power.		108
Only a fool does not fear actors, but you can't beat them, and if you can't beat them, join them, as they say. As I've got older I've become very interested in that part of the work.	Fear	109
I would say that I am a poor Christian; I'm not a believer. It was this idea very early in my life that life on Earth, nature or man could not be a creation of a merciful God.		110
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.		111
I always do something that I've never done before.		112
I'm having a vacation, and it's so beautiful, and maybe I'll never get another film idea in my life.		113
My films are about ideals that clash with the world. Every time it's a man in the lead, they have forgotten about the ideals. And every time it's a woman in the lead, they take the ideals all the way.		114
Political correctness kills discussion.		115
I know that I cannot be with a person for three hours without saying at least ten things that would kill me.		116
When I was in film school, it was said that all good films were characterised by some form of humour.		117
You could say that when you introduce humour to your work, you also step back a little from it. You create a distance.		118
I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden.		119
I sit there pouring out my woes year after year, coming up with one enormity after another about my mother and the way she let me down; but it doesn't make me any the less fearful.		120
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.		121
I'm happy that I'm alive. I feel like someone coming back from Vietnam, you know; I'm sure that later on I'll start killing people in a square somewhere, but right now, I just feel happy to be alive.		122
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.		123
You know, I really do have some morals. I do actually care about people. And I do have a political standpoint.		124
I am not very tough with raising my children, but you can argue that to be more tough will help your children.		125
I had an almost fetishistic attraction to film technology.		126
If I made a musical in the beginning of my career, it would have been crane shots and tracking shots and people coming out of cakes and whatever, but these techniques are something that I've left behind me.		201

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