Gentleman Scholar

How can you not love this guy? I want to write haikus using his words and screen print his face on my pillow.


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JAN KORNUM LARSEN: (Truffaut) was definitely one of those children who refused to grow up.
LARS VON TRIER: Absolutely. That he eventually wasted his talent is another thing. But then again, they've all done that...

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JANS KORNUM LARSEN: That (child thing) applies to Hitchcock, as well doesn't it?
LARS VON TRIER: No. but he was such a pig. I admire that tremendously.

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JANS KORNUM LARSEN: Is that what you're trying regress back to, the stone age? Are you trying to "fuck yourself back to  the stone age"?
LARS VON TRIER: No, I just think that the monkey is more interesting than the film consultant on whose shoulder it sits.

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JANS KORNUM LARSEN: Would you prefer to be a monkey?
LARS VON TRIER: Well, monkeys are to be pitied, too, but I do think that human beings are to be pitied even more.
JANS KORNUM LARSEN: In that they're not allowed to sit around in public places playing with their sexual organs.
LARS VON TRIER: That's exactly what they're not allowed to do.

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excerpts from 1984 conversation between Jans Kornum Larsen concerning 'Element of Crime' from Kosmorama #167, April 1984. Reprinted in Lars Von Trier: Interviews, University of Mississippi Press