90 Quotes by Lars Von Trier

If people do not laugh it’s not comedy.

I am a man who likes to control things, and if I can’t control them totally I will not control them at all.

I’m not a woman! Let’s make that very clear! Oh I don’t know, maybe I am. I am an American woman. Or 65 percent of me is.

Basically, I’m afraid of everything in life, except filmmaking.

That’s the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can’t do, so you don’t have to worry about them.

Every word removed from the language is another brick removed from the wall of democracy.

I always do something that I’ve never done before.

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

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.