Amoklauf Trier Quotes

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. ~ Lars Von Trier

I like gardening. I'm really a nature man. I spend as much time as I can in nature. I feel really safe there. ~ Lars Von Trier

The Crusade Produced the first Holocaust:

"The Jews of Mainz try to persuade the crusaders by casting coins and precious goods from their windows . The offering is not sufficient. The crusaders drag families from their dwellings and order them to submit to the christian baptism. The peasants with their scythes and sickles slice the throats of all those who refuse. over 900 suffer martyrdom. Out breaks of the program take place in other cities : Cologne , Trier, Prague and Ratisbon. The anti-jewish sentiment spreads throughout France and England. How many are slaughtered to provide provisions for the Peasant Crusade remains historians' guess. Some say 10,000. ~ Paul L. Williams

Perhaps the only difference between me and other people is that I've always demanded more from the sunset. More spectacular colors when the sun hit the horizon. That's perhaps my only sin. ~ Lars Von Trier

I know that I cannot be with a person for three hours without saying at least ten things that would kill me. ~ Lars Von Trier

Grace paused. And while she did, the clouds scattered and let the moonlight through, and Dogville underwent another of those little changes of light.
lt was as if the light, previously so merciful and faint, finally refused to cover up for the town any longer.
Suddenly you could no longer imagine a berry that would appear one day on a gooseberry bush, but only see the thorn that was there right now.
The light now penetrated every unevenness and flaw in the buildings...
and in... the people!
And all of a sudden she knew the answer to her question all too well.
lf she had acted like them she could not have defended a single one of her actions and could not have condemned them harshly enough.
lt was as if her sorrow and pain had finally assumed their rightful place.
No. What they had done was not good enough. And if one had the power to put it to rights,
it was one's duty to do so.
For the sake of the other towns.
For the sake of humanity.
And not least for the sake of the human being that was Grace herself. ~ Lars Von Trier

I'm having a vacation, and it's so beautiful, and maybe I'll never get another film idea in my life. ~ Lars Von Trier

I'm not a woman! Let's make that very clear! Oh I don't know, maybe I am. I am an American woman. Or 65 percent of me is. ~ Lars Von Trier

More than anything, there are more images in evil. Evil is based far more on the visual, whereas good has no good images at all. ~ Lars Von Trier

Plainly it is not every error made by a witness which affects his credibility. In each case the trier of fact has to make an evaluation; taking into account such matters as the nature of the contradictions, their number and importance, and their bearing on other parts of the witness's evidence. ~ H.C. Nicholas

We don't usually start out with a plot that we can pitch in two lines. We spend a year brainstorming and discussing ideas that are sometimes of a visual nature, sometimes just about characters and then we try to structure the story. ~ Joachim Trier

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. ~ Lars Von Trier

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? ~ Lars Von Trier

I like so many different directors: Scorsese, Coppola, Cassavetes, Jarmusch, Gus van Sant, Woody Allen and the greats like Fellini, Bergman, Tarkovsky and among current filmmakers von Trier, Ang Lee, Wong Kar-wai. ~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Basically, I'm afraid of everything in life, except filmmaking. ~ Lars Von Trier

Nature is Satan's church. ~ Lars Von Trier

We need to substitute 'trier' for failure. The word 'fail' is closely related to the word fall. A child taking his first step falls, cries and then tries again. Why does he try again? Because he wants to, but does not, know the meaning of failure. ~ Anup Kochhar

Oslo is a city with a hidden beauty that I wanted to explore and find out if it was possible to capture the specific feeling of bicycling home from a party early in the morning just as the sun is coming up. ~ Joachim Trier

I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden. ~ Lars Von Trier

I adored 'Breaking The Waves,' so when Lars von Trier wanted me in 'Dogville,' I was beside myself with joy. He works in a way that nobody I've ever worked with works. ~ Lauren Bacall

Unfortunately, on one or both of my shoulders sits lots of anxiety and that is a controlling factor in my life. ~ Lars Von Trier

I think working with actors is a little bit how a chef would work with a potato or a piece of meat. You have to kind of have a look at the potato or the piece of meat and see what kind of possibilities are in the ingredient. I know I'm using the wrong metaphor. I think my job is to see what potato is there and from there, just work under their conditions. ~ Lars Von Trier

If you asked an 18-year-old what they want to do with their life, and the options are 'Transformers' or Lars von Trier, he's probably shipping out for 'Transformers.' If you ask a 26-year-old what he wants to do, 'Transformers' or Lars von Trier, he'd probably pick Lars von Trier. So, my sensibilities are changing as I change. ~ Shia Labeouf

I studied classics, and I find it mystifying that we had Medea and Electra and Antigone and all these amazing characters, and they don't really exist in cinema now. The only person who's really doing it, and he gets loads of criticism for it, is Lars Von Trier. ~ Alice Lowe

I would amputate my toes to work with Lars von Trier again. ~ Bryce Dallas Howard

I always do something that I've never done before. ~ Lars Von Trier

Every word removed from the language is another brick removed from the wall of democracy. ~ Lars Von Trier

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. ~ Lars Von Trier

I would say that I am a poor Christian; I'm not a believer. It was this idea very early in my life that life on Earth, nature or man could not be a creation of a merciful God. ~ Lars Von Trier

Have taken Trier with two divisions. What do you want me to do? Give it back? ~ George S. Patton

If you want to provoke, you should provoke someone who is stronger than you, otherwise you are misusing your power. ~ Lars Von Trier

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. ~ Lars Von Trier

It's always been a lie that it's difficult to make films. ~ Lars Von Trier

I am the best film director in the world. ~ Lars Von Trier

You know, I really do have some morals. I do actually care about people. And I do have a political standpoint. ~ Lars Von Trier

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. ~ Lars Von Trier

I am a man who likes to control things, and if I can't control them totally I will not control them at all. ~ Lars Von Trier

I'm happy that I'm alive. I feel like someone coming back from Vietnam, you know; I'm sure that later on I'll start killing people in a square somewhere, but right now, I just feel happy to be alive. ~ Lars Von Trier

Actors need bricks to play with, and in fact we rejected all the improvised fragments we had made without a plan. Improvisation without a plan is like tennis without tennis balls. ~ Lars Von Trier

I have fought my fight, I have lived my life,
I have drunk my share of wine;
From Trier to Coln there was never a knight
Led a merrier life than mine. ~ Charles Kingsley

The Danish filmmakers are a unique breed of filmmakers, with the Dogme films and Lars von Trier. ~ Pierce Brosnan