“I think my initial instinct not to act in the movie was right. After filming it, I was at the bottom. Lars [von Trier] has a way of throwing petrol on your soul and burning you. And then it’s just cinders. Nothing left. You don’t come out of it like a phoenix. He did the same with Nicole Kidman in Dogville. He would take her to a forest and say, ‘I hate you for being beautiful and successful ; I just want to ruin you.’ It’s all about him being jealous of Hollywood, jealous of Nicole Kidman and jealous of me. He’s a genius, but how many movies can you make about destroying the lead female ?”

— Björk on regretting her acting role in Dancer in the Dark, The Independent (2004)