Gaspar Noe
Listen to the works of your idols, not your teachers.
I like not cutting scenes. I like going from one head to another head talking. I like that energy.
I would have a problem directing a scene like most directors do, in that TV style. I would get bored, I don't enjoy editing in the classic way.
Jason and the Argonauts' is the very first movie that I ever remember watching. My parents were living in New York and I was a very young kid. And I remember being in front of my TV all alone watching skeletons fighting with swords. For me it was magic.
I have a lot of respect for those movies, like the old 'King Kong,' which create a grand world with the tricks.
I still can't get used to a smartphone. There's something I really dislike about it, but for a new generation, life without smartphones never existed.
I get very, very bored by TV series or TV movies. But when you see great acrobats on TV, my eyes stick to the screen. I can watch them forever.
I'm fascinated with old stories that you can read in newspapers that seem like catastrophe movies.
One day, if I had to do a horror movie, it will be a very realistic war movie. For me, war is horror.
Falling in love is when the presence of this person makes you release all kinds of substances in your brain, serotonins and endorphins. The moment you break up with that same person, you feel like a junkie who is not getting the drug anymore. Many times I've heard people say, "I'm in love with falling in love". You get all the best and all the worst in the same place.Collection: Falling In Love
You feel touched by a movie in a good or bad way or you have a strong reaction to something that's totally artificial, to an imitation of life. But that imitation of life that you see on the screen can affect you almost as if it was real.Collection: Strong
When you first time you fall in love, you think that is going to be your whole life project, loving someone. It burns your brain, you kind of become blind, the moment you see the person you're in love with you want to see that person again and again and again, kiss that person, hug that person. You turn blank to the rest of the world.Collection: Falling In Love
Filmmaking is just a very luxurious and efficient way of expressing yourself.Collection: Way
Hallucinations are an inner experience in which most of the time you forget you're there.Collection: Hallucinations
falling in love is the most natural thing in the world. Everybody has been through it, everybody has scars, everybody wants to restart falling in love.Collection: Falling In Love
Maybe the dreams make the people stronger, whatever.Collection: Dream
My weapon is just a movie.Collection: Weapons
Everybody wants to lie to himself, pretending that there's something else besides only the normal life you're living in.Collection: Lying
I think there can be incestuous love.Collection: Thinking
Vengeance is a human right.Collection: Vengeance
If you just open your dictionary, "morality" is the sense that separates good from evil. And if you really want to see what evil is, it just says that "evil is the opposite of good." And if you ask "Then what is good?" it says that it's the opposite of evil.Collection: Opposites
When you see a movie, it's like you're attending a show of magic in which the magician pulls a rabbit out of a hat. You don't know how he did it, but a part of you is fascinated, or hypnotized, by what happened, another part of your brain says, "Oh, I want to do the same thing! I want to be that wielder of that magic. I want to be that magician on stage, and do the same thing to other people."Collection: People
I feel very protected when I see a movie. That's why I like making violent movies or radical movies.Collection: Violent
I think it's more normal to make a movie dealing with love, sexual or not, than to make movies about bank robberies, which very rarely happen in real life. So I would say the problem is not what some people feel is normal, I would say the problem is why this whole industry is far more obsessed with filming scenes of dominance, guns, invasion.Collection: Real
Most people feel aggressed by anything that is different from them.Collection: People
I always think of moments of love with someone I love.Collection: Thinking
War, sometimes you have to go for it, you know?Collection: War
You wake up because you killed someone and you're afraid of going to jail. And the moment you wake up you feel safe and it's over and you can meet that person in the street and you're not going to jail. The good thing about dreams is that they erase some kind of desire, because after your dreams you feel you've done it, and you're relieved.Collection: Dream
I don't want to give any lines to anybody because otherwise they come out like bricks from their mouths. The important thing is the meaning of the scene, not the words you use, and I prefer that you find your own words to express the scene.Collection: Giving
I prefer periods of peace and love.Collection: And Love
I think you direct a movie just to express your own self.Collection: Thinking
In most cases, I don't know how much, I cannot say if it's ninety nine percent or eighty percent, but the problem with incestuous relationships is that they often come from frustration. And from need of power.Collection: Frustration
Man is a moral being.Collection: Men
I think that it's much brighter just to assume that you're an animal in the jungle and you have to survive.Collection: Animal
I think British people for example can handle better their own poorness. The image of their poorness. But in France, people don't handle it very well. Either you are normal or ... if you are poor you better not show it.Collection: Thinking
Sometimes you have the chance to do one movie, make it the best you can, put everything in it.Collection: Chance
I'm brighter when I'm not drunk; when I'm drunk, I lose part of my IQ.Collection: Drunk
Some people take drugs in a quest for spirituality.Collection: People
In France, it's just.., if you're the son of someone, you can be sure that you will have a good life. Because you're the son of this guy or the daughter of that guy you will be introduced to this person who will give you a job even if you're totally incompetent.Collection: Daughter
I would have to take some kind of revenge if my girlfriend had been aggressed, my mother had been aggressed, or my kids had been aggressed. I think I would go for personal revenge.Collection: Mother
Sometimes when I make a movie, my main goal is to show the movie to one particular director.It's not about competing. It's mostly about someone who did something that blew your mind and you want to see if you can render the joy.Collection: Goal
From a simple, mammal perspective, you think you're going to make friends through the movie. You think, "Oh, this kind of humor that I play with will bring people that have a similar kind of humor. I'll make new friends," or something. You don't even think in terms of audience or of money.Collection: Simple
If I had to go through a tunnel ten years without making any movies like Bunuel, I don't mind, as long as I did one good movie.Collection: Tunnels
Some girls tell me I'm a sex maniac, or people I don't know think that I'm a fascist, but I don't feel like one. I really think I'm not Communist either, because I don't belong to any political group.Collection: Girl
I'm not sure that people want to go back to the womb. People want to go back to the teats of your mother and hear your mother's heartbeat.Collection: Mother
If someone disturbs you... they didn't kill you, but you really feel like "I wish this guy was dead"... you know that you will not kill him yourself, but if he gets struck by a truck or by a train, you would really be happy.Collection: Guy
France is a very paternalistic society where people have to be introduced.Collection: People
Sometimes people who feel powerless, they come to bother their own kids, or they come to bother children.Collection: Children
I'm very much into vengeance, in the way that if someone attacks you, you have to attack him twice if you want to survive.Collection: Want