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There is no creative expression of artistic value that has ever been produced by ex-drunkards and ex-drug-addicts. Who the hell would bother with a Rolling Stones without booze or with a Jimi Hendrix without heroin?

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Lars von Trier
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: April 30
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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.
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I'm fighting against my will to control. I think that is what I am doing. I would like to accept things in life, in all matters of life I would like to accept, but it's so difficult. I think we all have this struggle.
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We start with a rehearsal where the actors kind of bring what they think should be in the scene. But we film everything, and we use cuts of this first take, also.
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Perhaps the only difference between me and other people is that Ive always demanded more from the sunset.
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When I was younger, I was fascinated by David Bowie, for example. he had created an entire myth around himself. It was as important as his music.
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That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, so you don't have to worry about them
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One of the things that got me thinking during therapy is that they say that fear is only thoughts, and nothing will happen because thoughts will never be real. And my thesis, or joke, in film Antichrist, is that they really do become real.
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The risk is that you furnish the project with new suggestions to try and freshen it up it's not always beneficial. You risk betraying the original intention with the story, forgetting what it is you really want to portray.
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Far be it from me to force anyone into either chess or dressage, but if you choose to do so yourself, in my opinion there is only one way: follow the rules.
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I did a lot of strange things. But I am a bad Catholic that's for sure. Although I think it's difficult to believe in evil.
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I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden.
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My films generally center around thousands of pictures being flashed in rapid succession to create the illusion of motion.
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I can't tell you why I choose stuff, it's really something I don't analyse. The only thing I can say is that a film has to demand to be made, I don't have a plan of what films I'm going to make. The only thing that I know now is that I'm not too crazy about doing things again that I've been into before.
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I hope my films will never completely be without the ability to mark anybody.
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I am a man who likes to control things, and if I can't control them totally I will not control them at all.
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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.
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You know, I really do have some morals. I do actually care about people. And I do have a political standpoint.
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