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.
bring character donald duck felt matter
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.
add chords emotional extremely fun means moment music sets trying
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.
accept emotions good instead means opera people sing
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.
breaking rendered waves
If Breaking the Waves had been rendered with a conventional technique, I don't think you could have tolerated the story.
allowed changed hang interpret moved neither picture rule sound
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.
close conscious decision earlier
In the earlier films, it was a conscious decision not to be too close to the actors.
certainly contains cut hope image perhaps sounds
Perhaps it sounds pretentious, but in one way or another I hope that you can see that every image contains an idea. It certainly sounds presumptuous-and perhaps it's also untruthful. But as I see it, every image and every cut is thought out. They are not there by chance.
colors dance dancing fond glamorous levels necessary people turn understanding
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.
becomes character easily far good material pass pathetic situation visible
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.