Lars von Trier Film Quotations

When I show a film at a festival, I am showing myself. Everything is at stake for me.

It's always been a lie that it's difficult to make films.

When I was in film school, it was said that all good films were characterised by some form of humour.

I had an almost fetishistic attraction to film technology.

A film has to be like a stone in the shoe.

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.