Lars Trier Quotes on Movies (12 Quotes)

I had to fight so much for the film. It was not very pleasant, but it's rewarding in another way. But it has not been pleasant.

We had shot very long scenes, and no scene was like the other. The actors were allowed to move within the scene as they pleased, and they never needed to follow any determined action.

Its very exciting to be introduced to some movies by Matthew about objects like architecture...but Im more of a typical woman, I like feelings.

In the earlier films, it was a conscious decision not to be too close to the actors.

I also wanted t do a film with a religious motif, a film about miracles. At the same time, I wanted to do a completely naturalistic film.

It felt important to find some actors who really had the enthusiasm to participate. And I think it feels as if the heart is in it among those we finally chose.

But if it means that people who used to be limited by a notion of how a proper film should be, if those people now feel that they can make film-then I find that has a certain quality to it.

If you go on correcting a script, you may lose your enthusiasm. It almost happened in this process, too, when we spent ages changing scenes and moving back and forth but in the end we returned to the original, and the final version of the film is very close to the script.

I also have scenes with music in them, and we have recorded the music on location-a bit like the first talk movies.

It's... a matter of making the actors responsible for their characters, so if they felt that their character would read a Donald Duck magazine, they would bring one themselves.

The essence of my dramaturgical considerations is that I want to chuck out the most superfluous, habitual constraints and escape from rigidity, but at the same time film is a means of communication.

We had to turn up the colors in the dance sequences to make people feel that there were different levels of the film. I was not so fond of that, because it made the dancing more glamorous in a superficial way than what I really wanted, but it was necessary for the understanding of the two levels.