Top 192 Quotes & Sayings by Gaspar Noe

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.

Listen to the works of your idols, not your teachers.

If you take pleasure in what you're doing, certainly the audience might, too.

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.

I've always wanted to make a poster out of my bad reviews and frame it.

Before being humans with morals, people are mostly animals, fighting for domination and survival.

Tokyo's like a huge pinball machine. The first time you're there, and you don't understand what's going on, it's like 'ding ding ding ding ding' everywhere. The lights are changing, the neon lights are moving.

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 watch the Cannes awards ceremony because I relate more to the films that are competing in Cannes than the ones competing for the Oscars.

I really don't care about the Oscars.

I'm a happy person. When a happy person makes a cruel movie, it becomes funny.

For the record, I'm straight.

I was considered a crazy guy.

I got used to long takes with 'Irreversible' and 'Enter the Void' and also with 'Love.'

Most people who have a baby don't want to be filmed while they have a baby.

I am not the Marquis de Sade.

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.'

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 have a lot of respect for those movies, like the old 'King Kong,' which create a grand world with the tricks.

When you make a movie, you're just having fun with the audience.

My father offered me a Super8 camera that he bought in some Brazilian airport. I was 16, and shot a reel with my best friend Juan Solanas jumping from the Pont Neuf bridge. It was my first psychological drama.

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.

Alcohol makes you stupid.

I like laughing about cruel things because life is cruel.

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.

The truth is, when you make movies, you have to learn how to lie. You have to convince people to give you money and you pretend they'll get double, triple or 10 times as much.

Yeah, I was only in New York from the age of six months until five years old. But my very first memories are all of New York. I remember my first rainbow on a beach in New York. I remember jumping on a bed in New York.

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 fascinated with old stories that you can read in newspapers that seem like catastrophe movies.

I've always been respectful to all the people who do visual effects and special effects, because making movies is also making magic.

If you can make something that looks new - novelty is exciting.

I'm so used to bad reviews. I really enjoy them when they're very mean!

Weapons are the source of death. In every American movie, there are machine guns, whatever.

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.'

When your mother dies in your arms, your perception of life changes. I think the whole thing is just a fleeting illusion.

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.

Documentaries can provoke much more than narrative movies.

Un Chien Andalou' can be replayed over and over and over.

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.

If there's one movie character that I wish I could be, for sure it's Travis Bickle.

I like not cutting scenes. I like going from one head to another head talking. I like that energy.

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 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.

Seventies cinema - 'Taxi Driver,' 'Deliverance' - that was the best period of American cinema.

I can't prevent myself of being funny.

If Kubrick made me love forever the film language, Scorsese made me love actors. And 'Raging Bull' is my favorite male performance ever.

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.'

I would never watch the Oscar ceremony.

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?

In 'Climax' there are all kinds of colours of skin, all kinds of genders, sexual preferences - but I don't care, I chose my favourite dancers.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Every single life is about construction and destruction.

I always thought it would be good to do a psychedelic movie like '2001: A Space Odyssey.'

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.

There is an animal instinct force in humans that creates passion. When you love sometimes you cross a border.

I enjoyed using cranes and using all these CGI images on 'Enter the Void.'