Lars von Trier (né Trier; 30 April 1956)[3] is a Danish film director and screenwriter. (wikipedia)
You cannot bring in props-if you are filming in a house, you use the furniture and props that are present in that house. If our fiction necessitates the use of a certain prop, we have to film where the prop can be found instead of moving the prop to where we would like to be.
If Breaking the Waves had been rendered with a conventional technique, I don't think you could have tolerated the story.
When we later cut down the scenes, our only thought was to increase the intensity in the performance, without regard as to whether the image is in focus.
Perhaps it sounds pretentious, but in one way or another I hope that you can see that every image contains an idea. It certainly sounds presumptuous-and perhaps it's also untruthful. But as I see it, every image and every cut is thought out. They are not there by chance.
I think some of the acting scenes with Bjork look beautiful. Yes, to me, they are beautiful, but I am quite fond of Bjork.
I think technology right now is great, because it makes filming so easy, you know.
A load of cinematic effects that otherwise seem easy or cheap to me suddenly become difficult again... can't you hear that this is the only right way of doing it?
The members of my family that I've shown the film to have also been severely critical toward it.
It's something important in the relationship between the artist and his public.
I enjoy dialogue that leads to something more comical, and at the same time I like the added poignancy, too.