After “Melancholia” and “On the Road,” I wanted to do a comedy. And I did so many comedies when I was younger, but if you’re not consistently in those movies, people don’t always think of you for them.
Melancholia is the beginning and a part of mania. The development of a mania is really a worsening of the disease (melancholia) rather than a change into another disease.
the history of melancholia includes all of us.
I got used to [ Lars Von Trier] doing the narration for 'Dogville' and 'Manderley. ' And I said to him I do these narrations for you but you never put me in a film! So he called my bluff and put me in 'Melancholia' and I was thrilled about that.
On our way home we were waiting for the bus when a very fat, pompous-looking woman reeled out of a pub shouting, "Melancholia? Ad nauseam.
The melancholia of everything completed!
When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.
It's interesting to watch people go through it in something like this. I mean, what other then Melancholia films do they portray depression in?
