question: Which director grew up in New Jersey, Lars von Trier or James L. Brooks?
answer: James Lawrence Brooks
context: Title: Pernille Fischer Christensen
  Passage: Pernille Fischer Christensen (born 24 December 1969) is a Danish film director and the older sister of actor Stine Fischer Christensen.  She started out in the movie business when she was 20 years old as an assistant to Tómas Gislason.  During that time, Gislason was closely connected to Lars von Trier, and she got to listen to Gislason and von Trier's discussions about movies.  In 1993, she went to The European Film College where she met and collaborated with Nanna Arnfred.  In 1999, she graduated from the National Film School of Denmark with the movie "India", which later went on to win the Cinéfondations 3rd Prize at the Film festival in Cannes.  After finishing film school she made a short film called "Habibti My Love", which won a Robert in 2003 for "best short subject".
  Title: Breaking the Waves
  Passage: Breaking the Waves is a 1996 film directed by Lars von Trier and starring Emily Watson.  Set in the Scottish Highlands in the early 1970s, it is about an unusual young woman, Bess McNeill, and of the love she has for Jan, her husband, who asks her to have sex with other men when he becomes immobilized from a work accident.  The film is an international co-production led by Lars von Trier's Danish company Zentropa.  It is the first film in Trier's Golden Heart Trilogy which also includes "The Idiots" (1998) and "Dancer in the Dark" (2000).
  Title: Manderlay
  Passage: Manderlay is a 2005 internationally co-produced avant-garde drama film written and directed by Lars von Trier and the second part of von Trier's projected "USA – Land of Opportunities" trilogy.  It stars Bryce Dallas Howard, who replaces Nicole Kidman in the role of Grace Mulligan.  The film co-stars Willem Dafoe, replacing James Caan.  Lauren Bacall, Željko Ivanek, Jeremy Davies, and Chloë Sevigny return portraying different characters from those in "Dogville".
  Title: The Kingdom (miniseries)
  Passage: The Kingdom (Danish title: Riget) is an eight-episode Danish television mini-series, created by Lars von Trier in 1994, and co-directed by Lars von Trier and Morten Arnfred.  It has been edited together into a five-hour film for distribution in the United Kingdom and United States.
  Title: Lars von Trier
  Passage: Lars von Trier ( Lars Trier, 30 April 1956) is a Danish film director and screenwriter with a prolific and controversial career spanning almost four decades.  His work is known for its genre and technical innovation; confrontational examination of existential, social, and political issues; and his treatment of subjects such as mercy, sacrifice, and mental health.
  Title: James L. Brooks
  Passage: James Lawrence Brooks (born May 9, 1940) is an Academy Award-, Emmy- and Peabody Award-winning American television and movie director, producer and screenwriter.  Growing up in North Bergen, New Jersey, Brooks endured a fractured family life and passed the time by reading and writing.  After dropping out of New York University, he got a job as an usher at CBS, going on to write for the CBS News broadcasts.  He moved to Los Angeles in 1965 to work on David L. Wolper's documentaries.  After being laid off he met producer Allan Burns who secured him a job as a writer on the series "My Mother the Car".
  Title: Nymphomaniac (film)
  Passage: Nymphomaniac (stylised onscreen and in advertising as NYMPH()MANIAC) is a 2013 European two-part art film written and directed by Lars von Trier.  The film stars Charlotte Gainsbourg, Stellan Skarsgård, Stacy Martin, Shia LaBeouf, Christian Slater, Jamie Bell, Uma Thurman, Willem Dafoe and Connie Nielsen.  The film was originally supposed to be only one complete entry; but, because of its multiple hour length, von Trier made the decision to split the project into two separate films.  "Nymphomaniac" was an international co-production of Denmark, Belgium, France, and Germany.
  Title: The Five Obstructions
  Passage: The Five Obstructions is a 2003 Danish documentary film directed by Lars von Trier and Jørgen Leth.  The film is conceived as a documentary, but incorporates lengthy sections of experimental films produced by the filmmakers.  The premise is that von Trier has created a challenge for his friend and mentor, Jørgen Leth, another renowned filmmaker.  von Trier's favorite film is Leth's "The Perfect Human" (1967), and von Trier gives Leth the task of remaking "The Perfect Human" five times, each time with a different "obstruction" (or obstacle) imposed by von Trier.
  Title: Zentropa
  Passage: Zentropa or Zentropa Entertainments is a Danish film company started in 1992 by director Lars von Trier and producer Peter Aalbæk Jensen.  Zentropa is named from the train company Zentropa in the film "Europa" (1991), which started the collaboration between Lars von Trier and Peter Aalbæk Jensen.
  Title: The House That Jack Built (2018 film)
  Passage: The House That Jack Built is an upcoming psychological horror thriller film written and directed by Lars von Trier, starring Matt Dillon in the title role of Jack.  The story follows Jack, a serial killer, over the course of 12 years in the 1970s and 1980s in the US state of Washington.  Von Trier has described the film as celebrating "the idea that life is evil and soulless."
citations: James L. Brooks Lars von Trier