Lars von Trier Quotes
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I like being scared, so I've always liked fairy tales because they're kind of creepy.
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I find it quite boring when people do things that are very considered and thought through. I like things best when they're just done because they're fun or beautiful, or simply because they are what that one person wanted to do at that one time.
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A story never looks as good as when the other fellow buys it.
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I live a half mile from the San Andreas fault - a fact that bubbles up into my consciousness every time some other part of the world experiences an earthquake. I sometimes wonder whether this subterranean sense of impending disaster is at least partly responsible for Silicon Valley's feverish, get-it-done-yesterday work norms.
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The miniatures of the Mughal period are really the pinnacle of Indian artistic achievement. And not a single one of those paintings is done by an individual artist.
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Since Madonna is positioned as always 'cooler than thou,' we all are primed for schadenfreude if something in her fabulous life goes amiss.
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I hear a lot of 'Top Model' girls say they are dismissed by clients because they recognize them, but it never happened to me.
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Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame.
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I've never been more famous than I was, suddenly, in 1986.
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Things are never perfect, so I never get too high about things, or get too down about things anymore.
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I have one son. Of everything I've done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.
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A screenplay is really a blueprint for something that will be filmed. Therefore you must always keep in mind that whatever you write is going to be staged, for real.
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It was always fun to skate with Paul Wylie and Paul Martini.
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I didn't have children, but I never wanted children.
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I always knew I was destined for greatness.
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Thankfully I'm not endlessly ambitious, but I have done some crazy ambitious things like buying an island off the west coast of Scotland in the late Sixties.
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To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.
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I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.
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It's a scary thing going into the workforce with a $50,000 debt and you've been trained as a classical theatre actor. There's always a depression in the theatre.
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The consolations of the vulgar are bitter in the royal ear. Let physicians and confectioners and servants in the great houses be judged by what they have done, and even by what they have meant to do; the great people themselves are judged by what they are. I have been told that lions, trapped and shut up in cages, grieve from shame more than from hunger.
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Writing is very much a playground - an artistic playground. It's the most fun thing I do.
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Whatever your image is, it's probably not you, but it affords you the freedom to live up to it.
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We are bringing women into politics to change the nature of politics, to change the vision, to change the institutions. Women are not wedded to the policies of the past. We didn't craft them. They didn't let us.
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I always do something that I've never done before.
