LARS VON TRIER

"Dimensions, ladies and gentlemen, do matter. Everything can be described in numbers, metres and microns. Too many numbers, or too few, and we must purge or add more. Far more often than you'd think, perhaps we chose our own numbers. Little Brother grew big, the sarcoma grew big. People are legion, and when they gaze up at the stars they may be tempted to call themselves "small". In reality we'd be far closer to the truth if we said that none of it actually existed. Compared to the universe the sarcoma, Little Brother, and the Kingdom are neither great nor small. Their aspirations, their stories and their pain are insignificant. If three people die in an aeroplane or a thousand of our worlds vanish in a flash of light it won't make the man in the moon across the galaxy bat an eyelid. That's how it is, and a good thing too. My name is Lars Von Trier and I wish you all a really good evening."

- From Lars Von Trier's The Kingdom (1997)

Source: Lars Von Trier. 1977. Riget II (English: The Kingdom). Day 7: Gargantua.