50 Quotes by Lars Trier

I think some of the acting scenes with Bjork look beautiful. Yes, to me, they are beautiful, but I am quite fond of Bjork.

I think technology right now is great, because it makes filming so easy, you know.

Reproduction is a little stupid. You have to put a little something in. It's like in the church you pay a little money to the tithe.

It felt important to find some actors who really had the enthusiasm to participate. And I think it feels as if the heart is in it among those we finally chose.

I suppose Swedenborg might have been pleased to have a room named after him, a wall-papered room with two chairs and two doors and a simple painting of a landscape containing a tiger and a serpent and a few birds.

We had to turn up the colors in the dance sequences to make people feel that there were different levels of the film. I was not so fond of that, because it made the dancing more glamorous in a superficial way than what I really wanted, but it was necessary for the understanding of the two levels.

Visible good easily becomes trite; visually there is very little material left-you know, you make a sunbeam pass over a character or a situation and it becomes far too pathetic and banal.

When we later cut down the scenes, our only thought was to increase the intensity in the performance, without regard as to whether the image is in focus.

You cannot bring in props-if you are filming in a house, you use the furniture and props that are present in that house. If our fiction necessitates the use of a certain prop, we have to film where the prop can be found instead of moving the prop to where we would like to be.