Trier Quotes

"I am one of Lars von Trier`s fans and like the Dogma movement"

You want to take some responsibility in your choices so that it sets the groundwork for that next generation of actresses - so for me working with Lars von Trier, I would hope that says to another generation: "go and seek out those directors, it`s ok"

(on Dogville (2003)) One day it would be a fairy tale, the next it was a nightmare. Lars (Lars von Trier) was gentle with me - he was gentle and soft, then he would beat me up emotionally when he felt he needed that. I did not always register what was happening until afterwards but you shouldn`t have too much awareness as an actor, I don`t think.

I did this picture last year with Nicole Kidman and Lars von Trier, Dogville (2003), and it`s supposed to be a trilogy, but now that she`s walked away from it, I`m walking from it. He is very anti-American, so screw him. I`m very pro-America. I`m a conservative, basically.

On being at the Cannes Film Festival opening of "Breaking the Waves" without the film`s director, Lars von Trier: "It was a bit of a baptism of fire, because I had never done any press before. I had never done a single interview in my life. I had never made a film before, I just knew nothing. And I arrived in this maelstrom of publicity with this extraordinary film, and of course Lars von Trier didn`t come to Cannes so we - just the actors - were left to explain what on earth he meant by this extraordinary film. The first experience of Cannes, the first time I was here, is like seared in my brain like a firebrand. It was very intense. I remember as the light went down, someone leaned over and said, "Emily your life is about to change forever." You know the official music? Whenever I hear that music that they play when the film starts, my stomach starts to churn. But being with this film is more than great, because it`s more about show business. There are ten of us here, and nobody is really carrying the film in that way."

Forget all the excuses, `the childish fascination` and `the all embracing humility`, for this is my confession, black on white: I, Lars von Trier, am but a simple masturbator of the silver screen.

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