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...
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If you examine the history of the cinema the way I'm constantly doing, I've tried to seek some of the lightness and enjoyment possessed by the films I refer to.
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.
extent man reality
If you tell a man what to do in real life, to which extent is it reality and to which extent are you in control?
dull rather second time twice
I kind of have to see it through to the end, don't I? But at the same time it's also rather dull doing something for the second time, I must admit. I've never made anything twice in my life.
image meant worked
Before, I worked with a storyboard, and that meant that the image wasn't good. There was a lot of things that you had to live up to.
fight rewarding
I had to fight so much for the film. It was not very pleasant, but it's rewarding in another way. But it has not been pleasant.
filming technology
I think technology right now is great, because it makes filming so easy, you know.
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I'd toyed with a couple of ideas beforehand, but I hadn't written a single cue, and it was a wonderful feeling to just write away.
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The essence of my dramaturgical considerations is that I want to chuck out the most superfluous, habitual constraints and escape from rigidity, but at the same time film is a means of communication.
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If you go on correcting a script, you may lose your enthusiasm. It almost happened in this process, too, when we spent ages changing scenes and moving back and forth; but in the end we returned to the original, and the final version of the film is very close to the script.
ambient capture forest mike scene tree
In the forest scene we had put a mike up a tree to capture the ambient sound... it is like reinventing movie-making, don't you see?