Gaspar Noe
80-percent of 'Enter the Void' is a traditional narrative movie. I suppose it's more similar to 'Jacob's Ladder' or 'Videodrome' than it is to 'Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome' by Kenneth Anger, which is very experimental. It's the other 10% of 20% that reminds you of the language and glamour of dreams.Collection: Anger
I did this very cheap movie called 'Love,' and then I decided I wanted to make an even cheaper movie so people don't get involved and can't tell you how to rewrite it or how to avoid losing money. The good thing about doing these quite cheap movies is that you have much more freedom.Collection: Movies
I think that in some ways 'Climax' is easier to digest than my other movies because the characters are easier to identify with. You love them because they're young, they're great dancers, they're beautiful, and they are willing to construct something. They're not losers like most of the characters of my previous movies.Collection: Movies
There are two major masterpieces that really brought the language of dreams or nightmares to the screen. The initial one is Dali and Bunuel's 'Un Chien Andalou,' and then later, David Lynch's 'Eraserhead.'Collection: Dreams
In my case, I feel very protected when I see a movie. That's why I like making violent movies or radical movies.Collection: Movies
I was reading some books by Michel Houellebecq, and the first thing that comes to mind is that they're really funny, all the ways they describe the most depressing things.Collection: Funny
Seventies cinema - 'Taxi Driver,' 'Deliverance' - that was the best period of American cinema.
Before being humans with morals, people are mostly animals, fighting for domination and survival.
Charisma is charisma.
I got used to long takes with 'Irreversible' and 'Enter the Void' and also with 'Love.'
I don't like the word provocateur. It sounds like a social disease coming from France.
I am not the Marquis de Sade.
There is an animal instinct force in humans that creates passion. When you love sometimes you cross a border.
On my sets, everybody seems very relaxed. I always try to avoid any tension before it even begins. A shooting has to be like a party. The creative process must be joyful, even if the final result is meant to be sad or scary.
I tried 'Black Panther.' I escaped from the cinema after 20 minutes. I thought it was as bad as 'Star Wars.' I hated 'Star Wars.'
It's funny how much the lie of a life after life works with people. Even people who are non-believers seem to think that their soul is going to survive.
Alcohol makes you stupid.
I used to consume a lot of horror movies as a teenager, and some impressed me more than other ones. I would watch Romero's movies, Dario Argento's movies, 'Eraserhead' over and over. 'Possession,' 'Repulsion,' 'Freaks.'
I'm so used to bad reviews. I really enjoy them when they're very mean!
Every single life is about construction and destruction.
There are periods in your life in which you dream much more as an artist - you remember your dreams in the morning, and there are periods in your life that for one month or two months you don't remember any dreams.
If I cared about who was winning the Oscar, it was when I was a kid when they were giving awards to 'Midnight Cowboy' or 'The Godfather.'
I was considered a crazy guy.
You know it's a great story when you identify with the main character to the point that you forget you're a spectator or a reader.
When your brain and body stop working, it turns into hell. Death is at that point desired. It's the best thing that can happen.
My characters are never heroic. They are mostly lost and trying to find the right door to open and they end up opening the wrong doors.
I remember 'The Towering Inferno' when it came out, I was probably 10 years old, but I could watch it seven consecutive days in the week. I would go and watch it over and over and over.
I mostly get bored by comedies, action movies, science fiction movies - they are so predictable.
I've always been respectful to all the people who do visual effects and special effects, because making movies is also making magic.
Un Chien Andalou' can be replayed over and over and over.
If there's one movie character that I wish I could be, for sure it's Travis Bickle.
If Kubrick made me love forever the film language, Scorsese made me love actors. And 'Raging Bull' is my favorite male performance ever.
I think life after death is in the mind of the people around you. It's what's left in this world in the memory of others, but when the flesh starts rotting, the spirit disappears.
When you're dead, you're dead. I believe in shapes - you're not conscious of it, but you're like a tree that grows but takes a particular shape that is prewritten.
I always thought it would be good to do a psychedelic movie like '2001: A Space Odyssey.'
I spent a long time on my first movie, which was the sequel to a short film that I did called 'Carne.' And I had no money. I shot it over a period of three years, a bit like David Lynch directed 'Eraserhead.'
I'm a happy person. When a happy person makes a cruel movie, it becomes funny.
Weapons are the source of death. In every American movie, there are machine guns, whatever.
I've always wanted to make a poster out of my bad reviews and frame it.
I would never watch the Oscar ceremony.
I really don't care about the Oscars.
I watch the Cannes awards ceremony because I relate more to the films that are competing in Cannes than the ones competing for the Oscars.
Most people who have a baby don't want to be filmed while they have a baby.
If you can make something that looks new - novelty is exciting.
I enjoyed using cranes and using all these CGI images on 'Enter the Void.'
If you take pleasure in what you're doing, certainly the audience might, too.
Lars von Trier makes funny, radical movies, some packing power. But, he's not a provocateur. He's making adult movies for an adult audience. Pasolini, too. Fassbinder, too.
Narrative cinema is just an imitation of life. Why would you prevent yourself and the audience of the same images, of the same that happened in real life?
Documentaries can provoke much more than narrative movies.
Most of the directors that I show my movies before the final cut, are directors that I admire, and who do movies that are very different from mine.