Gaspar Noe
Movies dealing with social subjects in France become very paternalist. They want to teach lessons. They don't show poorness like a normal situation.Collection: Lessons
I think in life, people know what they want. They want to survive, they want to have a family. They want to procreate because it's in the genetic law.Collection: Thinking
I am Left Wing. I am a Humanist.Collection: Wings
Make a movie that you can be proud of.Collection: Proud
I am not a police fan at all.Collection: Police
It's not that I dislike the police, but I would never go to the police for anything. It's just that I prefer not..., not calling them.Collection: Police
Being poor is a normal thing.Collection: Normal
I think that people can fall in love with someone who is not of their own generation.Collection: Falling In Love
I felt attacked because people rejected me. They didn't say "we can give you money to do something else if you want," they just said "no, this movie cannot be done" and I said "okay, so I'll do it!"Collection: People
The good thing about forbidding the death penalty is that society won't be able to kill people who are not guilty, but at the same time there are some people that are just such a mental mess that, you know, they will never get out of their obsessions and they can keep them forever.Collection: People
I know that sometimes in my own life I really felt like killing people.Collection: People
Tokyo is like a huge futuristic pinball machine. It's like a bubble with two lost creatures inside a pinball machine that doesn't care about them. The other thing is, it's very colorful.Collection: Care
If I had a kid, and someone had touched my kid, I am sure that if I had a gun or a knife, I would go and stab the person who I supposed touched my kid.Collection: Kids
I think that in the American film industry - or even in the European cinema - movies are made not to disturb any kind of class or any kind of minority.Collection: Thinking
I notice that I feel safer among women when I do drugs. I would never do drugs with male friends.Collection: Drug
I think that wars will never stop, it's just that there are sides. You have to choose your side. And there are more progressive sides.Collection: War
On an everyday level, I use alcohol and drugs in general mostly to be in a happier mood, with the people around me.Collection: People
If you sue somebody it takes two years, three years, and your anger just gets lost in between. And even if you win or lose the trial, it takes such a long time. If you want to really take a personal revenge, you'd better do it by yourself and at the right time.Collection: Revenge
If you're a Bosnian and suddenly you get attacked by the Serbs, there's just one way of getting rid of your opponents. It's taking revenge and trying to fight as hard as you can.Collection: Revenge
The hateful reviews are very funny. And sometimes you can enjoy a hateful review much more than a good review.Collection: Hateful
It's funny, when you start talking about primitive scenes, so many people have seen their parents having sex.Collection: Sex
Sometimes I have better relationships with my barber then with people who are into cinema from an upper class.Collection: Class
Horsemeat is the most male meat you can think of.Collection: Thinking
Societies have progressed much more during times of peace than during wars.Collection: War
I'm not from a lower social level, but I think I relate more to lower levels then to people who've got money.Collection: Thinking
The French movies that are promoted abroad are the ones that give a trendy, cultural, petit bourgeois, upper class image of France, but it's true that people who are poor in France are the same in New York or in India.Collection: New York
In life, some people just know that they have the power of their money. They can sign checks, contracts, and things like that. And they think they are bright just because they can sign these things because someone gave them the possibility to have this economic power over you. And they behave as censors.Collection: Thinking
Erotic movies - they don't even make it anymore. Even the erotic magazines don't really look like the ones you could find in the '70s. You have much more extreme iconography of what is sexy. It's very cold. There's nothing that links to real life.Collection: Sexy
In French you say, "I'm alone against the world" and that means "I hate everybody and everybody's against me."Collection: Hate
I had very good LSD, but the problem was - I tried making a film, or doing some filming, when I was on LSD, and it's impossible. I couldn't focus. I tried focusing, but when I looked through the lens, I'd see all different layers of focus, and I couldn't find which was the real one behind the camera. And I just thought, this does not work, and I never tried that again.Collection: Real
My father is much more into forgetting and forgiving, but I'm much more into revenge.Collection: Revenge
What I don't like in movies dealing with the illustration of altered states of consciousness is that usually you see the guy from the outside.Collection: Illustration
I belong to the petit bourgoiusie somehow, because of my parents.Collection: Parent
Survival is a genetic law.Collection: Law
In North America someone who doesn't know anybody, he can go... you can be respected for your own identity. It pushes your personality to become stronger.Collection: America
The power that a president has in France is like the power of a king. In America, you know that his power is limited. Maybe because there used to be a king for centuries and now they're still behaving like they need a king.Collection: Kings
People who are poor, they suffer a lot. And people drink a lot and people take a lot of downers and there's a lot of unemployment.Collection: People
When you start a movie... when it's a short, people don't care... but when it's a feature they want money.Collection: People
You can put whatever you want inside evil and good in morality.Collection: Evil
I wanted to do comic books... as a comic book artist, as an illustrator. But I'm not very good so I thought I should do something else! So I went to a film school when I was seventeen and came out when I was nineteen.Collection: Book
Scope movies shown on TV letter-boxed are always the big budget movies.Collection: Letters
That's why workers in France like horsemeat, because it's like a male thing that makes you strong. Cow meat is a much more female meat.Collection: Strong
The only reason I would call the police is if someone is getting aggressed in the street and I'm behind a window.Collection: Police
In France, like in most countries, the respect you receive depends on your class.Collection: Country
America in some ways is much more of a democracy then France. It is and it's not.Collection: America
In England they need a king, in Spain they need a king, in France there is no more king. But they consider the president as if he was a king.Collection: Kings
I'm sure if you were a Bosnian during the war, you would wish to kill Serbs. Just because it is the opposite of you and because they're aggressors. And also, it happens to me when I get attacked.Collection: War
When you go to Cannes, people are there to fight, to scream - like football, the World Cup. Once I was working on a movie, and then when I went to Cannes, I went there to whistle at all the other movies in competition. You go to help your friends and fight with your friends' enemies.Collection: Football
The negative has to be done on an A and B [roll] so you don't see the cuts, the splices on the frameline.Collection: Cutting