Author of quotes: Lars Von Trier

My highest goal is to squeeze the truth out of my characters and circumstances.

I felt the need to capture my own reality. You can call it an escape from reality. If you experience discomfort in real life, you can live in your fantasy world and control in it what is not really controllable. I think this is a great excuse to start composing.

I can say that my favorite is films in which reality appears distorted.

From the fact that we do not call items by their names, they do not cease to exist...

Preaching banal and generic point of view - all the same what to fish in shallow water.

Subconsciously, people always tends to melancholy. Unrequited love romantic happy love, and - as longing or as the pain we feel melancholy sharper than happiness.

Perversion? Don't see anything wrong with that - at least as long as it does not cause inconvenience to others.

I'm the same as everyone: I love getting awards, but they do not make me happier.

Many children create their own fantasy worlds where they themselves are the rulers. There is nothing offensive in recognizing that at the heart of many pieces of art are children's wishes. Infantilism has its own value, I am convinced.
The Director's job is too create your own world. The main task of the Director is to convince everyone working on the film - behind the camera and in front of her - to participate in his game, to agree on the proposed rules. Even as a child, you soon find that may not simply tell the other children what they should do, so they immediately agreed to play your game. Better to find some technique that will convince them that they want to play it. In General, this game - the making of the film - means that you have to manipulate others.

We're supposed to be angry with parents? Because in the end it was their fault. In the first place because that made us into the light.

By the way, I sent our Manifesto Bergman and suggested he make a film on the rules of "Dogma". Of course, he replied "no". But I consider him my spiritual father, and he has the problem with his spiritual father. He received no answer from God, but I have not received from him, so normal. And then it would be strange to get a response from the person who made the film "Silence."

All these critical reviews are mainly of interest to those who write them. I do not remember a single article about the movie that would make me think, "Yeah, right, there it is!" But it's great that people are trying to learn the meaning of cinema, its diversity and multidimensionality. But to me personally it does nothing.

We live in the midst of chaos, so you need to create ideals in order to survive. Otherwise life would be intolerable. On the other hand, we know how difficult it is to follow their ideals among the reality in which we find ourselves. But I don't see any alternative.

It is now possible to create on film anything in digital format. All this is done in the studios of special effects on computers - and that became much more boring. The feeling of mastery is gone. So now I think it is the natural desire to abandon special effects.