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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.
Lars von Trier
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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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If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.
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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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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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When I was in film school, it was said that all good films were characterised by some form of humour.
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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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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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It's always been a lie that it's difficult to make films.
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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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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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I had an almost fetishistic attraction to film technology.
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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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