Lars von Trier

Nature is Satan's church. ↗

— Lars von Trier

#nature

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. ↗

— Lars von Trier

#bricks #fact #fragments #had #improvisation

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. ↗

— Lars von Trier

#chess #choose #either #far #follow

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

— Lars von Trier

#before #done #i #i always #never

I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden. ↗

— Lars von Trier

#emotions #forbidden #grew #home #i

I had an almost fetishistic attraction to film technology. ↗

— Lars von Trier

#attraction #film #had #i #technology

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. ↗

— Lars von Trier

#after #another #any #coming #down

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

#audience #cinema #efficient #efficient way #give

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. ↗

— Lars von Trier

#back #coming #feel #happy #i

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. ↗

— Lars von Trier

#become #does #fear #fool #got