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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I enjoy dialogue that leads to something more comical, and at the same time I like the added poignancy, too.
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I give myself a task. This time, the task was to do a musical.
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I have maneuvered my way through four or five different types of cancer that I completely succumbed to. It's amazing how many probable types of cancer can arise when hypochondria permits.
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I would argue that the aesthetics in flattening out a scene completely are obsolete.
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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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I also have scenes with music in them, and we have recorded the music on location-a bit like the first talk movies.
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I also wanted t do a film with a religious motif, a film about miracles. At the same time, I wanted to do a completely naturalistic film.