- Lars Quotes

If there was no Black Sabbath, I could still possibly be a morning newspaper delivery boy. No fun.

If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.

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.

Everything is going to hell, but we should smile all the way.

The enemy isn't conservatism. The enemy isn't liberalism. The enemy is bulls**t.

A film should be like a rock in the shoe.

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.

If you want to provoke, you should provoke someone who is stronger than you, otherwise you are misusing your power.

Perhaps the only difference between me and other people is that Ive always demanded more from the sunset.

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.

I am a man of very many anxieties but doing strange things with the camera is not one of them.

I think its a very strange question that I have to defend myself. I don’t feel that. You are all my guests, it’s not the other way around, that’s how I feel.

The worst day of my life was once that my mom didn't allow me to go to a Queen concert because I was grounded.

Basically, I'm afraid of everything in life, except filmmaking.

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.

I think that limitations are the most important part of any art form

I think that sexuality is the part of human beings that is closest to nature. And nature is dangerous somehow, yes, if you put nature against civilisation, nature is definitely a threat.

I am the best film director in the world.

I am a man who likes to control things, and if I can't control them totally I will not control them at all.

One of my few shortcomings is that I can't predict the future.

I'm just sittin here trying not to be unhappy.

I like gardening. I'm really a nature man. I spend as much time as I can in nature. I feel really safe there.

Stretching your parameters is a necessity if you wan to keep growing, and sometimes the best way to do that is to dive into the deep end.

This isn't about fans, greed or money. It's about being morally right or wrong. Nobody is governing the way music gets from artists to fans. It's all running amok.

Some people try and tell you what the songs are about and it bores me to death.

Metallica's the only band I've ever been in and it's the only band I ever wanna be in.

The only band that we have never played with but have always wanted to is the Rolling Stones.

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.

My films generally center around thousands of pictures being flashed in rapid succession to create the illusion of motion.

Sharing's only fun when it's not your stuff.

Unfortunately, on one or both of my shoulders sits lots of anxiety and that is a controlling factor in my life.

It is more difficult to manipulate with film than, for instance, video. The problem with video is that it gives you a thousand possibilities.

I don't like to be pigeonholed, and I really like that people never really know what's going on with Metllica.

The tools used by the surgeons must be adapted to the task and where the human brain is concerned they cannot be too refined.

I had a lot of frustrations, and I was drinking far too much, and I was just trying to survive and this is what came out of it.

If there are some people that like the film and some people that do not, that's fine for me, because I do not intend to make very broad films.

Whenever I buy a painting, someone invariably says, "Oh, what a great investment." And I hate that reaction. To me, it's a matter of love and not an exchange of equity.

When I was younger, I was fascinated by David Bowie, for example. he had created an entire myth around himself. It was as important as his music.

That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, so you don't have to worry about them

Anthropocentrism gave rise to boredom, and when anthropomorphism was replaced by technocentrism, boredom became even more profound.

A film has to be like a stone in the shoe.

I know that I cannot be with a person for three hours without saying at least ten things that would kill me.

Political correctness kills discussion.

As long as it says Metallica on the record it's Metallica.

I guess that seeing yourself on a screen is something that you get used to. Let's face it, these days, there's really nothing that you do that doesn't get filmed.

People are always spewing this horseshit about how age doesn't matter. Well, it does matter! I'm thirty-five, and I'm happy to be thirty-five. I can't pretend I'm still a snot-nosed 21-year-old.

I would say that I am a poor Christian; I'm not a believer. It was this idea very early in my life that life on Earth, nature or man could not be a creation of a merciful God.

If you sit there and you know that rule #1 is just that everything you do is honest and is just a natural and instinctual extension of yourself, then there you go.

I’m having a vacation and it’s so beautiful and maybe I’ll never get another film idea in my life.

I am very romantic about communism even still, but I know terrible things happened.