Top 27 Quotes by Lars von Trier

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.

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.

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

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

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.

I had an almost fetishistic attraction to film technology.

I'm having a vacation, and it's so beautiful, and maybe I'll never get another film idea in my life.

When I was in film school, it was said that all good films were characterised by some form of humour.

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.

Political correctness kills discussion.