50 Quotes by Lars Trier

One morning I greeted the cast naked in the front drive and insisted that today was to be a nude day. No, we didn't have any nudity problems.

I would argue that the aesthetics in flattening out a scene completely are obsolete.

Idiocy is like hypnosis or ejaculation: if you want it, you can't have it-and if you don't want it, you can.

I have maneuvered my way through four or five different types of cancer that I completely succumbed to. It's amazing how many probable types of cancer can arise when hypochondria permits.

If Breaking the Waves had been rendered with a conventional technique, I don't think you could have tolerated the story.

I enjoy dialogue that leads to something more comical, and at the same time I like the added poignancy, too.

I give myself a task. This time, the task was to do a musical.

I also have scenes with music in them, and we have recorded the music on location-a bit like the first talk movies.

I also wanted t do a film with a religious motif, a film about miracles. At the same time, I wanted to do a completely naturalistic film.