"When I show a film at a festival, I am showing myself. Everything is at stake for me."

-- Lars von Trier

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“The theory is that if you spill all your secrets, you'll have no desire to lie about anything, ever again. Like the worst about you is already in the open, so why not just be honest?”
“I think that what one can see from a Darwinian account is how the addition of culture in our species turns us into a very special sort of animal, an animal that can be a moral agent in a way that no other animal can be.”
“A real gentleman is as polite to a little girl as to a woman.”
“In our society, real power does not happen to lie in the political system, it lies in the private economy: thatâ€™s where the decisions are made about whatâ€™s produced, how much is produced, whatâ€™s consumed, where investment takes place, who has jobs, who controls the resources, and so on and so forth. And as long as that remains the case, changes inside the political system can make some difference-I donâ€™t want to say itâ€™s zero-but the differences are going to be very slight.”
“Energy functioning in a pattern becomes matter. That is all life is ... Matter and energy are interrelated.”
“To be honest I think my read is people are now taking this seriously. They realise that the game is up and the planet and all of us - I mean all of us - have to really start doing something much more drastic in order to try and contain the impacts.”

Source : Source: www.abc.net.au
“I'm guilty of extraordinary naivete, I suppose. But it's a naivete that I really don't want to abandon, not even now.”
“Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all . . . . It is as if the socialists were to accuse us of not wanting persons to eat because we do not want the state to raise grain”

Source : Frederic Bastiat (2006). “The Law”, p.26, Cosimo, Inc.

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