Top 74 Trier Quotes
#1. Have taken Trier with two divisions. What do you want me to do? Give it back?
George S. Patton
#2. You were used to say extremity was the trier of spirits; that common chances common men could bear; that when the sea was calm all boats alike showed mastership in floating
William Shakespeare
#3. 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
#4. I think you either get along with Lars [von Trier] or you really don't and I really got along with him. I wasn't scared because I talked to Bryce Dallas Howard about Lars.
Kirsten Dunst
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. What can I say?" Orion managed a grin through bloody teeth. "God loves a trier.
R.R. Washburn
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. Lars von Trier is not not somebody who is known for conducting a normal press conference ever!
Kirsten Dunst
#11. 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
#13. The Danish filmmakers are a unique breed of filmmakers, with the Dogme films and Lars von Trier.
Pierce Brosnan
#14. I mean look at Antichrist. He's not making films to be liked by everyone, so why is this so surprising coming from Lars von Trier?
Kirsten Dunst
#16. You know, I really do have some morals. I do actually care about people. And I do have a political standpoint.
Lars Von Trier
#17. It's always been a lie that it's difficult to make films.
Lars Von Trier
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. When I was in film school, it was said that all good films were characterised by some form of humour.
Lars Von Trier
#22. I'm very proud of being persona non grata. I've never been that before in my life, and that suits me extremely wellI'm known for provocations, but I like provocations when they have a purpose. And this had no purpose whatsoever. Because I'm not Mel Gibson. I'm definitely not Mel Gibson.
Lars Von Trier
#24. I am a man of very many anxieties but doing strange things with the camera is not one of them.
Lars Von Trier
#26. That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, so you don't have to worry about them.
Lars Von Trier
#27. You could say that when you introduce humour to your work, you also step back a little from it. You create a distance.
Lars Von Trier
#28. I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden.
Lars Von Trier
#29. 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
#30. I always do something that I've never done before.
Lars Von Trier
#31. I think it's important that we all try to give something to this medium, instead of just thinking about what is the most efficient way of telling a story or making an audience stay in a cinema.
Lars Von Trier
#32. 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
#34. I am not very tough with raising my children, but you can argue that to be more tough will help your children.
Lars Von Trier
#35. I hope my films will never completely be without the ability to mark anybody.
Lars Von Trier
#36. I am crazy about my own films. The films I've just made I'm crazy about them. But then I don't see them for many years. It's like when you get a new child you're very crazy about this child but then after a few years you're like, "what was its name again?"
Lars Von Trier
#38. 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
#39. Far be it from me to force anyone into either chess or dressage, but if you choose to do so yourself, in my opinion there is only one way: follow the rules.
Lars Von Trier
#40. If I made a musical in the beginning of my career, it would have been crane shots and tracking shots and people coming out of cakes and whatever, but these techniques are something that I've left behind me.
Lars Von Trier
#41. I understand Hitler ... I sympathize with him a bit
Lars Von Trier
#42. 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
#43. Everything is going to hell, but we should smile all the way.
Lars Von Trier
#44. 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
#45. 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
#46. 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
#47. Basically, I'm afraid of everything in life, except filmmaking.
Lars Von Trier
#49. I think that limitations are the most important part of any art form
Lars Von Trier
#50. The risk is that you furnish the project with new suggestions to try and freshen it up; it's not always beneficial. You risk betraying the original intention with the story, forgetting what it is you really want to portray.
Lars Von Trier
#51. If you want to provoke, you should provoke someone who is stronger than you, otherwise you are misusing your power.
Lars Von Trier
#52. My films generally center around thousands of pictures being flashed in rapid succession to create the illusion of motion.
Lars Von Trier
#53. I am very romantic about communism even still, but I know terrible things happened.
Lars Von Trier
#54. 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
#55. 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
#57. 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
#58. When I was younger, I was fascinated by David Bowie, for example. he had created an entire myth around himself. It was as important as his music.
Lars Von Trier
#59. I had an almost fetishistic attraction to film technology.
Lars Von Trier
#60. 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
#61. If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.
Lars Von Trier
#62. It is more difficult to manipulate with film than, for instance, video. The problem with video is that it gives you a thousand possibilities.
Lars Von Trier
#63. My films are about ideals that clash with the world. Every time it's a man in the lead, they have forgotten about the ideals. And every time it's a woman in the lead, they take the ideals all the way.
Lars Von Trier
#64. Unfortunately, on one or both of my shoulders sits lots of anxiety and that is a controlling factor in my life.
Lars Von Trier
#65. 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
#66. When I show a film at a festival, I am showing myself. Everything is at stake for me.
Lars Von Trier
#67. If anyone would like to hit me, they are perfectly welcome. I must warn you, though, that I might enjoy it. So maybe it's not the right kind of punishment.
Lars Von Trier
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. Cinema is a wonderful art form for talking about loneliness. We can experience films together with other people. It can be a collective experience of loneliness. We're alone in the dark of the theater, but with other people.
Joachim Trier
#72. I come from a family of communist nudists. I was allowed to do or not do what I liked. My parents were not interested in whether I went to school or got drunk on white wine.
Lars Von Trier
#73. Only a fool does not fear actors, but you can't beat them, and if you can't beat them, join them, as they say. As I've got older I've become very interested in that part of the work.
Lars Von Trier
