Top 192 Quotes & Sayings by Gaspar Noe - Page 2

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.

I'm very proud of every single movie, whether they make money or not.

I don't think of my movies as provocative.

I'm not interested in constraining human beings like rats in a laboratory.

I like 3D.

I mostly get bored by comedies, action movies, science fiction movies - they are so predictable.

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 want to make clear that I do not promote any belief of a lord or a reward after this lifetime. If you want to be rewarded, reward yourself during this lifetime. No one is going to help you out.

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.

Death is not evil. Death can be good news. It all depends. Some people come to this world and live in hell so birth is not always positive. Death can sometimes be positive.

One day, if I had to do a horror movie, it will be a very realistic war movie. For me, war is horror.

When you make shorts, people don't get paid. It's mostly about being diplomatic that you're going to do a masterpiece of short cinema.

With documentary, you just pick up a camera and start.

Even the most achieved life ends up in the hospital with your body and brain falling into pieces.

If I make a happy, happy movie one day, I'll think it's dull.

No director is independent.

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

I went to see some voguing ballrooms and krump battles, and I was hypnotized by their body language. These guys, who are usually very poor, become stars onstage once a month in a ballroom or in a battle.

Charisma is charisma.

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.

For all of my movies, half of the press always hates it.

Sometimes you don't want to abandon a project to go to another move and come back, so maybe because I have a manic obsession I stick to my idea, and I'd rather wait than do something that is not my main passion.

When I go to the DVD shop, I mostly buy documentaries because you learn a lot from documentaries.

I don't believe in telling people you can suffer this life because you're rewarded in a future life.

The American horror movies are more moralistic, they have not only good characters, but characters where the ultimate danger is death. What I like about European cinema is they have another sense of what's good, what's bad, and sometimes all the characters are far more complex than just that. It's less binary, the Giallo genre.

The truth is that... if you put any idea out there that's kind of flashy, you have many, many people that are going to be copying it. This happens whether you do movies, paintings or music.

I don't believe in life after death. But I still enjoyed the idea of doing a movie that would portray that collective dream, that collective need. Like flying saucers are a collective need for people who need to believe in flying saucers. You don't need to believe in flying saucers to do a movie about Martians or flying saucers.

I really disliked promoting 'Love' in America.

Movies are best when your mind is open.

It's very nice to hear something very soft to your ear when you have something very hard to your eyes.

When you do a movie, it comes out of many different ideas that you had.

Before being a person, man is an animal, with all its reptilian compulsions. And if at some point you block the conscious part of the mind, you've got all the reptilian compulsions that come out.

Avatar' is very mind-blowing - or eye-blowing, maybe - especially in 3-D.

Love' touches women more. They say it is feminist.

I forget myself when I dance.

I can't stand musicals, but I love dance because it's a corporeal language that can be so rich and sometimes so unusual.

I don't like the word provocateur. It sounds like a social disease coming from France.

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.

The voice of a kid can be so much more touching than an adult voice.

Life is a short game. If you want to be bisexual, pansexual, do it.

Vengeance is a human right.

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

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.

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.

I think there can be incestuous love.

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

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

My weapon is just a movie.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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 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.

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.

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."