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About the Lars von Trier
Lars von Trieris a Danish film director and screenwriter.
Beginning in the late-1960s as a child actor working on Danish television series Secret Summer, von Trier’s career has spanned more than five decades. Considered a major figure of the European film industry, he and his works have been variously described as ambitious and provocative, as well as technically innovative. His films offer confrontational examinations of existential, social, psychosexual, and political issues, and deal in subjects including mercy, sacrifice, and mental health. He frequently collaborates with the actors Jens Albinus, Jean-Marc Barr, Udo Kier and Stellan Skarsgard.
Von Trier co-created the avant-garde filmmaking movement Dogme 95 alongside fellow director Thomas Vinterberg and co-founded the Danish film production company Zentropa, the films from which have sold more than 350 million tickets and garnered eight Academy Award nominations.
Von Trier has been the subject of criticisms and controversies. Cannes Film Festival, in addition to awarding his films on numerous occasions, once listed him as persona non grata for making a Nazism joke during an interview. Animal harm on Manderlay’s set, and graphic violence and unsimulated sex in some of his films have drawn criticism, and he has also been accused of mistreatment and negligence towards actresses during the filming process, including Bjork.
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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.
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If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden.
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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.
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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.
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I always do something that I’ve never done before.
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I had an almost fetishistic attraction to film technology.
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I’m having a vacation, and it’s so beautiful, and maybe I’ll never get another film idea in my life.
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It’s always been a lie that it’s difficult to make films.
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When I was in film school, it was said that all good films were characterised by some form of humour.
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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.
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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.
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