"I come from a family of communist nudists. I was allowed to do or not do what I liked. My parents were not interested in whether I went to school or got drunk on white wine." – Die Zeit
"This is cream on cream. A woman’s film! I feel ready to reject the film like a wrongly transplanted organ." – ‘Melancholia’ Director’s Statement
"If anyone would like to hit me, they are perfectly welcome. I must warn you, though, that I might enjoy it. So maybe it’s not the right kind of punishment." – Spiegel
"Because I’m a cultural rebel, I couldn’t make a porn film without a dick and a condom. So it will have to be soft-core."- IndieWire
"I don’t know why everybody thinks I’m very, very small. This T-shirt I have now is Ingmar Bergman on a cloud. It was given to me a week ago. I’m not really sure he is on a cloud. I think maybe he went straight to hell, but that we don’t know. " – IFC
"I’m actually mixing up the genres a little bit here, so that we put full penetration into a film where full penetration should not be." – AV Club
"First of all, I ask them to read everything really carefully, so I would not all of a sudden have to tell them ‘Now you should masturbate in the woods and stuff.’ Because in my experience, it’s a very good idea to discuss that in advance. - AV Club
"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." – interview with Jan Lumholdt
"I am a man of very many anxieties but doing strange things with the camera is not one of them." – The Guardian
"I’m not a woman! Let’s make that very clear! Oh I don’t know, maybe I am. I am an American woman. Or 65 percent of me is." – Die Zeit
"The problem with men is that they will always piss up your back, like when all the deer are together in the woods." – Bright Lights Film
"Even this room holds a thousand stories you could include…for instance, the story of the origin of this chair. How has it been used previously and why is it exactly this chair here and not another chair which perhaps ought to have been here?" – Interview with Nils Thorsen
"Compared to Bush, Clinton seemed like a good guy, right? He was playing saxophone." – Black Book
"You can do almost anything on film now. With the help of computers, I can insert a herd of elephants into a scene, or create an earthquake. But that doesn’t interest me. I’d rather draw the shape of a dog on the studio floor to mark that there is a dog there, or put a crate of beer in a corner to indicate a bar." – The Guardian
"Everything is going to hell, but we should smile all the way." - Little White Lies
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A film should be like a rock in the shoe.
