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Lars von Trier Biography

Lars von Trier (born Lars Trier, 30 April 1956) is a Danish film director and screenwriter with a prolific and controversial career spanning almost four decades. His work is known for its genre and technical innovation; confrontational examination of existential, social, and political issues; and his treatment of subjects such as mercy, sacrifice, and mental health.

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I did a lot of strange things. But I am a bad Catholic that's for sure. Although I think it's difficult to believe in evil.

Believe, Evil, Strange, Think, Thinking

I think working with actors is a little bit how a chef would work with a potato or a piece of meat. You have to kind of have a look at the potato or the piece of meat and see what kind of possibilities are in the ingredient. I know I'm using the wrong metaphor. I think my job is to see what potato is there and from there, just work under their conditions.

Ingredient, Ingredients, Jobs, Look, Meat, Thinking

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.

Car, Hes, Says, Sounds, Stupid, Writing

One of the things that got me thinking during therapy is that they say that fear is only thoughts, and nothing will happen because thoughts will never be real. And my thesis, or joke, in film Antichrist, is that they really do become real.

Fear, Film, Joke, Nothing, Real, Thinking

We start with a rehearsal where the actors kind of bring what they think should be in the scene. But we film everything, and we use cuts of this first take, also.

Cutting, Everything, Kind, Start, Think, Thinking

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?"

Children, Crazy, Films, Name, Years

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

Create, Distance, Humour, Littles, Say, Steps

The risk is that you furnish the project with new suggestions to try and freshen it up; it's not always beneficial. You risk betraying the original intention with the story, forgetting what it is you really want to portray.

Beneficial, Betrayal, Freshen, Furnish, Risk, Trying

I am very romantic about communism even still, but I know terrible things happened.

Communism, Happened, Terrible, Very Romantic

If there are some people that like the film and some people that do not, that's fine for me, because I do not intend to make very broad films.

Broad, Film, Fine, Intend, Make, People

I am not very tough with raising my children, but you can argue that to be more tough will help your children.

Argue, Arguing, Children, Helping, Tough

I am a man of very many anxieties but doing strange things with the camera is not one of them.

Anxieties, Anxiety, Camera, Cameras, Men, Strange

I always do something that I've never done before.

Done

I think that limitations are the most important part of any art form

Art, Important, Limitations, Part, Think, Thinking

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

Hours, Kill Me, Saying, Three

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.

Christian, God, Ideas, Men, Say

I had a lot of frustrations, and I was drinking far too much, and I was just trying to survive and this is what came out of it.

Drinking, Frustration, Frustrations, Survive, Trying

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

Devalue, Fall, Rationality, Tends, World

I am crazy about time cuts. I have a theory that the audience tie everything together so they don't see time cuts but the time cuts give us the possibility of jumping in time, which means a psychological evolution can be cut down.

Crazy, Cuts, Cutting, Mean, Psychological, See

Even if you feel all right, tell the actors you don't have full power, and they will help you.

Full, Help, Helping, Power, Right, Tell

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