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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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I come from a family of communist nudists. I was allowed to do or not do what I liked. My parents were not interested in whether I went to school or got drunk on white wine.
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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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I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden.
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Just the fact that you're working is good for you.
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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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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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Only a fool does not fear actors, but you can't beat them, and if you can't beat them, join them, as they say. As I've got older I've become very interested in that part of the work
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Unfortunately, on one or both of my shoulders sits lots of anxiety and that is a controlling factor in my life.
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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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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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Political correctness kills discussion.
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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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I encouraged the cast to make up their own lines.
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A film has to be like a stone in the shoe.
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I am crazy about time cuts. I have a theory that the audience tie everything together so they don't see time cuts but the time cuts give us the possibility of jumping in time, which means a psychological evolution can be cut down.
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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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I am very romantic about communism even still, but I know terrible things happened.
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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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I know that I cannot be with a person for three hours without saying at least ten things that would kill me.
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