Gaspar Noe Quotes

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.

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.

Hallucinations are an inner experience in which most of the time you forget you're there.

Maybe the dreams make the people stronger, whatever.

I feel very protected when I see a movie. That's why I like making violent movies or radical movies.

I always think of moments of love with someone I love.

The hateful reviews are very funny. And sometimes you can enjoy a hateful review much more than a good review.

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.

I think there can be incestuous love.

I notice that I feel safer among women when I do drugs. I would never do drugs with male friends.

On an everyday level, I use alcohol and drugs in general mostly to be in a happier mood, with the people around me.

Sometimes when I make a movie, my main goal is to show the movie to one particular director.

I'm brighter when I'm not drunk; when I'm drunk, I lose part of my IQ.

Sometimes I have better relationships with my barber then with people who are into cinema from an upper class.

Everybody wants to lie to himself, pretending that there's something else besides only the normal life you're living in.

Some people take drugs in a quest for spirituality.

I prefer periods of peace and love.

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.

Horsemeat is the most male meat you can think of.

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.

My weapon is just a movie.

I think that it's much brighter just to assume that you're an animal in the jungle and you have to survive.

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.

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!"

Vengeance is a human right.

Most people feel aggressed by anything that is different from them.

I'm not from a lower social level, but I think I relate more to lower levels then to people who've got money.

Filmmaking is just a very luxurious and efficient way of expressing yourself.

In French you say, "I'm alone against the world" and that means "I hate everybody and everybody's against me."

I am not a police fan at all.

Sometimes you have the chance to do one movie, make it the best you can, put everything in it.

Scope movies shown on TV letter-boxed are always the big budget movies.

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.

I think that people can fall in love with someone who is not of their own generation.

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.

I think you direct a movie just to express your own self.

Make a movie that you can be proud of.

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.

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.

I belong to the petit bourgoiusie somehow, because of my parents.

Survival is a genetic 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.

When you start a movie... when it's a short, people don't care... but when it's a feature they want money.

You can put whatever you want inside evil and good in morality.

People sometimes, they just stop because they see this scope movie. They say "oh, this is a real movie, this is not a TV movie."

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.

America in some ways is much more of a democracy then France. It is and it's not.

If the Nazis have been destroyed it's because America got into the war. They went for it and they got into the fight.

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.

The negative has to be done on an A and B [roll] so you don't see the cuts, the splices on the frameline.