We don't usually start out with a plot that we can pitch in two lines. We spend a year brainstorming and discussing ideas that are sometimes of a vis…

- Joachim Trier

Cinema is a wonderful art form for talking about loneliness. We can experience films together with other people. It can be a collective experience of…

- Joachim Trier

Oslo is a city with a hidden beauty that I wanted to explore and find out if it was possible to capture the specific feeling of bicycling home from a…

- Joachim Trier

I think that cinema is a great place to make stories of loneliness. And being Norwegian, I don't want to make the film about loneliness in being out …

- Joachim Trier

I don't want to make a depressing movie. I want it to allow us to ask some questions and stay asking those questions. How predetermined are our lives…

- Joachim Trier

One of the things that really fascinates me about movies is that they make seemingly ordinary moments be filled with some curiosity or some energy or…

- Joachim Trier