Lars von Trier Quotes

You could knock my teeth out and break my nose, and there'd be something funny about it to me.

The most serious film can be the most fun. The one that's supposed to be fun can be the most serious.

Marilyn Manson is a criticism of gimmickry, while being itself a gimmick.

I was probably the only revolutionary ever referred to as "cute.

One of the greatest pleasures I get from my measly professional career is confusing people. "Wait - he beats women and seems like a Nazi, but he has impeccable grammar and keen reasoning skills and sings country music and can, from time to time, say or do something really funny?" It absolutely doesn't compute for them. I enjoy that immensely.

I like a cliche if it's sort of turned on its head.

I am fascinated by the idea of employing beautiful images as a device to convey something extremely disturbing in an apparently harmless way.

That's what people forget about, is that when things are very, very powerful in a sad way, they have that possibility of also being over-the-top, hysterically funny.

Sisyphus, you know, had an easy life.

I like to think of myself as a virtuous troll.

I try to think of school - this is going to sound awful - as something I do in my free time.

I love taking something that is understood to be funny or charming or sweet or naive and instilling it with some degree of gravity.

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labor.

Desecration is the smile on my face.

I have a strong constitution which has served me quite well, though if I hadn't had such a strong one I might have led a more healthy life perhaps.

One of the greatest pleasures I get from my measly professional career is confusing people.

Had the situation not been so tragic, we might have laughed.

The best way to make somebody feel important is to try to assassinate them.

I have been known as a crank, faddist, madman. Evidently the reputation is well deserved. For wherever I go, I draw to myself cranks, faddists, and madmen.

When I'm watching South Park I don't think it's written by neo-Nazis. They know exactly what they're doing.

On the information sheet in a New York hotel, I recently read: 'Dear guest! To guarantee that you will fully enjoy your stay with us, this hotel is totally smoke-free. For any infringement of this regulation, you will be charged $200.' The beauty of this formulation, taken literally, is that you are to be punished for refusing to fully enjoy your stay.

I always want people to be confused, to be shocked or realize something later.

I was watching MTV and there were girls dancing in suspended cages. That would be an ambivalent situation: "I'm trapped! ...but enjoying the music".

I know that it is impossible to talk about my work. And since it's impossible for me or anybody else to talk about my work, I feel I might as well talk about it.

This was a big storm and he might as well enjoy it. It was ruining everything, but you might as well enjoy it