Lars von Trier
Lars von 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...
NationalityDanish
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth30 April 1956
CountryDenmark
I am the best film director in the world.
When I show a film at a festival, I am showing myself. Everything is at stake for me.
Political correctness kills discussion.
I encouraged the cast to make up their own lines.
A film has to be like a stone in the shoe.
Unfortunately, on one or both of my shoulders sits lots of anxiety and that is a controlling factor in my life.
Evil gives you far more strings to pull. But I must say that I have never been interested in the psychology of evil, not in the slightest. Perhaps I'm not interested in evil, but in the dark sides of human beings.
If people do not laugh it's not comedy.
It is more difficult to manipulate with film than, for instance, video. The problem with video is that it gives you a thousand possibilities.
I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden.
I had an almost fetishistic attraction to film technology.
I'm having a vacation, and it's so beautiful, and maybe I'll never get another film idea in my life.
If I made a musical in the beginning of my career, it would have been crane shots and tracking shots and people coming out of cakes and whatever, but these techniques are something that I've left behind me.
I'm very proud of being persona non grata. I've never been that before in my life, and that suits me extremely wellI'm known for provocations, but I like provocations when they have a purpose. And this had no purpose whatsoever. Because I'm not Mel Gibson. I'm definitely not Mel Gibson.