- Lars Quotes

I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden.

You know, I really do have some morals. I do actually care about people. And I do have a political standpoint.

If you simply announce that things are irrational, then that alone doesnt get you very far. You have to replace rational agents with some concrete notion of what it means to be irrational.

For Heidegger, boredom is a privileged fundamental mood because it leads us directly into the very problem complex of being and time.

I did a lot of strange things. But I am a bad Catholic that's for sure. Although I think it's difficult to believe in evil.

I understand Hitler... I sympathise with him a little bit.

Traditions have been replaced by lifestyles.

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.

I hope my films will never completely be without the ability to mark anybody.

The music business, or what's left of it, is obviously a very - it's like a wild west now.

I always do something that I’ve never done before...

It's always been a lie that it's difficult to make films.

I would say [Lamar] Kendrick, it's always fun to see what happens when Kendrick takes the stage. And my two oldest kids are huge fans of him.

I would say that I'm very proud that Metallica plays heavy music - but equally proud that we don't think like a heavy-metal band.

I am not very tough with raising my children, but you can argue that to be more tough will help your children.

Only a fool does not fear actors, but you can't beat them, and if you can't beat them, join them, as they say. As I've got older I've become very interested in that part of the work

Reality is our best friend - everything indicates that nuclear power should be used more.

You could say that when you introduce humour to your work, you also step back a little from it. You create a distance

One mood can be replaced by another, but it is impossible to leave attunement altogether. However, profound boredom brings us as close to a state of un-attunement as we can come.

Animals can be understimulated, but hardly bored.

The UK has a super strong music culture. I could definitely see myself living there if it made sense.

We start with a rehearsal where the actors kind of bring what they think should be in the scene. But we film everything, and we use cuts of this first take, also.

Even if you feel all right, tell the actors you don't have full power, and they will help you.

Just the fact that you're working is good for you.

I had an almost fetishistic attraction to film technology.

I love artists who have spirituality. Jonathan Coulton is the man, I love his melodies and lyrics. Chap-hop is the bomb!

Music is one of the most amazing things to me and it's an honor to connect with people through it.

If people do not laugh it's not comedy.

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

I encouraged the cast to make up their own lines.

As the world gets smaller and communication spreads further and further out there, you try to find the right balance.

A utopia cannot, by definition, include boredom, but the 'utopia' we are living in is boring.

I think the understanding of the role of markets has really helped advance the values of entrepreneurship. Its helped shape public policy discussions in a whole variety of ways.

A lot of my colleagues have been people with broad interests in economics, not just narrowly focused interests.

You have to specialize the product.

When I was in film school, it was said that all good films were characterised by some form of humour.

Nature is Satan's church.

break the system use your imagination

Expectation is the greatest impediment to living, running ahead to tomorrow, it loses today.

CRM doesn't have to be hard, if you plan for how all the pieces will work together BEFORE you start your implementation.

Magic is something that surrounds you all the time! Always be happy no matter what happens!

Man is a plant, and its gardener. But it is only his soil that lets him rise, and it is only gardening himself, that may allow him to bear fruit.

We do not disappear without a trace. We leave a wake that never quite disappears, a gash in time that we so laboriously leave behind us.

A utopia cannot, by definition, include boredom, but the ‘utopia’ we are living in is boring.

Napster hijacked our music without asking. They never sought our permission. Our catalog of music simply became available as free downloads on the Napster system.