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
My films are about ideals that clash with the world. Every time it's a man in the lead, they have forgotten about the ideals. And every time it's a woman in the lead, they take the ideals all the way.
A film has to be like a stone in the shoe.
It's always been a lie that it's difficult to make films.
I had an almost fetishistic attraction to film technology.
When I show a film at a festival, I am showing myself. Everything is at stake for me.
When I was in film school, it was said that all good films were characterised by some form of humour.
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 hope my films will never completely be without the ability to mark anybody.
I am the best film director in the world.
My films generally center around thousands of pictures being flashed in rapid succession to create the illusion of motion.
A film should be like a rock in the shoe.
I think it's a very strange question that I have to defend myself. I don't feel that. You are all my guests, it's not the other way around, that's how I feel.
Basically, I'm afraid of everything in life, except filmmaking.
I sit there pouring out my woes year after year, coming up with one enormity after another about my mother and the way she let me down; but it doesn't make me any the less fearful.