Top 27 Quotes by Lars von Trier

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.

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.

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.

Political correctness kills discussion.

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

I had an almost fetishistic attraction to film technology.

You know, I really do have some morals. I do actually care about people. And I do have a political standpoint.

My films are about ideals that clash with the world. Every time it's a man in the lead, they have forgotten about the ideals. And every time it's a woman in the lead, they take the ideals all the way.

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

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.