Lars Trier
Lars Trier
Lars von Trier is a Danish film director and screenwriter, best known for his films Dancer in the Dark, Breaking the Waves, Melancholia and Europa. He is considered one of the great film auteurs and widely regarded as one of the most accomplished living directors in world cinema. In a prolific and controversial career spanning almost four decades, his work became distinct for its genre and technical innovation, the intensely confrontational - sometimes "humorous" - examination of existential, social and...
print problems ready time
I'm much calmer. We had a lot of time problems going to Cannes. The print was ready one day before it was shown. Now I feel very good.
prefer work
I prefer to work with unassailable ideas. And I wanted to do a film about goodness.
hypnosis
Idiocy is like hypnosis or ejaculation: if you want it, you can't have it-and if you don't want it, you can.
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In many ways I also have an understanding for-or rather, that people are engaged by spiritual questions and that they are so in an extreme manner. It is just that, if you want to create a melodrama, you have to furnish it with certain obstacles.
breaking rendered waves
If Breaking the Waves had been rendered with a conventional technique, I don't think you could have tolerated the story.
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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.
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In many ways the six weeks of shooting was the most intense film experience I've ever had.
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It's... a matter of making the actors responsible for their characters, so if they felt that their character would read a Donald Duck magazine, they would bring one themselves.
interested path taken
I've taken the circuitous path of being interested in people.
artist relationship
It's something important in the relationship between the artist and his public.
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For me as a director, it is extremely fun trying to add the music on the spot. Especially the moment when the music sets in and the emotional chords are engaged, is a very important means of expression.
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Opera is more like melodrama. And the good thing about opera is that if you can accept that people sing instead of talk, then you don't have to go in and out of it. And that means you can have your emotions with you.
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The rule means-as I interpret it-that you are allowed to do nothing with the sound and picture after shooting: sound and picture hang together, and neither may be changed or moved afterwards.
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In the earlier films, it was a conscious decision not to be too close to the actors.