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If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.
Lars von Trier
World
Fall
Rationality
Tends
Apart
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
Work
You
Fool
Fear
Become
Older
Say
Only
Join
Beat
Part
Does
Got
Very
Interested
Them
They Say
Actor
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
Music
Example
Myth
Important
Entire
David
David Bowie
Had
He
For Example
Bowie
Himself
Around
His
Younger
Created
Fascinated
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
Made
Fragments
Fact
Tennis
Had
Like
Without
Balls
Improvisation
Improvised
In Fact
Plan
Bricks
Actor
Play
Rejected
Need
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
Me
Mother
Year
Sit
Down
Enormity
Way
Out
Fearful
About
Pouring
She
Make
Another
Coming
Woes
Up
Any
After
Less
I always do something that I've never done before.
Lars von Trier
Before
Something
Never
Always
Done
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
You
Happy
People
Somewhere
Back
Later
Alive
Someone
Feel
Like
Know
Sure
Coming
Square
Just
Vietnam
Now
Right
Start
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
Good
Evil
Visual
More
More Than Anything
Than
Whereas
Anything
Far
Based
Images
When I show a film at a festival, I am showing myself. Everything is at stake for me.
Lars von Trier
Myself
Me
Everything
Am
Festival
Stake
Show
Showing
Film
You know, I really do have some morals. I do actually care about people. And I do have a political standpoint.
Lars von Trier
You
People
Political
Care
Some
About
Morals
Know
Really
Standpoint
Actually
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
You
Will
Tough
More
Argue
Am
Very
Children
Your
Help
Raising
There's a tremendous amount of work building the apparatus, getting the experiment to work. But sitting there late at night in the lab, and knowing light is going at bicycle speed, and that nobody in the history of mankind has ever been here before - that is mind-boggling. It's worth everything.
Lene Hau
Work
History
Worth
Light
Bicycle
Building
Before
Experiment
Speed
Late
Mind-Boggling
Tremendous
Tremendous Amount
Everything
Nobody
Knowing
Been
Lab
Sitting
Getting
Going
The History Of
Mankind
Apparatus
Ever
Amount
Here
Night
Physics is about questioning, studying, probing nature. You probe, and, if you're lucky, you get strange clues.
Lene Hau
Nature
You
Strange
Physics
About
Studying
Questioning
Get
Probe
Probing
Clues
Lucky
We're talking about growing up in regular families, dreaming about better things, instead of popping bottles in the club and spending a lot of money that you don't have while living in your mother's basement.
Lukas Forchhammer
You
Money
Better
Mother
Club
Living
Spending
Dreaming
About
Better Things
Bottles
Instead
Talking
Lot
Up
Families
While
Regular
Your
Popping
Growing
Growing Up
Basement
Things
I don't like the whole 'slander, slander' conversation that most political debates are these days. So I tend to keep my political standpoint not to myself, but just relatively private.
Lukas Forchhammer
Myself
Conversation
Political
Relatively
Tend
Days
Like
Most
Private
Debates
Just
Standpoint
Whole
Keep
Slander
Our art, in a sense, is quite revolutionary.
Lukas Forchhammer
Art
Sense
Our
Revolutionary
Quite
I think it's an important thing, if you grew up in a neighbourhood that's different from the rest of the world, to remember what was different about your place and keep that in your heart, because that's what made you.
Lukas Forchhammer
You
Heart
World
Remember
Made
Rest
Important
Think
Neighbourhood
About
Because
Important Thing
Up
Different
Grew
Place
Your
Keep
Thing
I never watched any award show.
Lukas Forchhammer
Never
Any
Show
Award
Watched
Seeing my child born is so much more important than anything else I've got going on.
Lukas Forchhammer
Important
Else
Seeing
Born
More
Got
Than
Child
Going
Anything
Anything Else
Much
I always saw law as a performance, just like being on a stage.
Lukas Forchhammer
Law
Stage
Saw
Performance
Like
Always
Just
Being
I'll probably stay in Copenhagen... I can keep writing songs about my local community and about crime.
Lukas Forchhammer
Writing
Crime
Community
Local
Local Community
Stay
About
Songs
Keep
Copenhagen
I've always wanted to release records in America. That's where I believe the music belongs, and the style and the eclectic musical mix that we put together kind of belongs here.
Lukas Forchhammer
Music
Together
Style
Believe
Musical
Release
Kind
Eclectic
Records
Put
Always
Mix
America
Where
Wanted
Here
Belongs
If it was up to me, it would be nice not ever to get stopped on the street, because we just do music. I didn't do this to become a celebrity.
Lukas Forchhammer
Music
Me
Be Nice
Become
Nice
Would
Would-Be
Because
Up
Celebrity
Get
Just
Stopped
Ever
Street
I don't think I can remain anonymous for that much longer. It was fun while it lasted. Very fun.
Lukas Forchhammer
Think
Lasted
Remain
Longer
Anonymous
Very
While
Much
Fun
I don't know how to thank all the people listening to our music. It's so amazing to come home to my friends who resist conformity, because they're so happy that I've made it.
Lukas Forchhammer
Music
Home
Happy
People
Amazing
Listening
Made
Our
Our Music
Come
Know
Because
How
Friends
Thank
Conformity
Who
Resist
I really like singing. I believe that if I wasn't a good singer, I would have been tossed out of school.
Lukas Forchhammer
Good
School
Singing
Believe
Out
Would
Tossed
Like
Singer
Been
Really
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