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"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."
"Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music."
"It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard "Heartbreak Hotel" I thought, this is it."
"I had this song called Helter Skelter, which is just a ridiculous song. So we did it like that, 'cuz I like noise."
"In these confused times, the role of classical music is at the very core of the struggle to reassert cultural and ethical values that have always characterized our country and for which we have traditionally been honored and respected outside our shores."
Explore more quotes by Lars von Trier
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"When I was in film school, it was said that all good films were characterised by some form of humour."
"You could say that when you introduce humour to your work, you also step back a little from it. You create a distance."
"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."
"I'm having a vacation, and it's so beautiful, and maybe I'll never get another film idea in my life."
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