Top 192 Quotes & Sayings by Gaspar Noe - Page 3

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.

Man is a moral being.

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.

Horsemeat is the most male meat you can think of.

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 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.

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

My father is much more into forgetting and forgiving, but I'm much more into revenge.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

Societies have progressed much more during times of peace than during wars.

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.

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

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.

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

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!"

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 know that sometimes in my own life I really felt like killing people.

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.

Some people take drugs in a quest for spirituality.

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

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.

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.

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.

It's funny, when you start talking about primitive scenes, so many people have seen their parents having sex.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

I prefer periods of peace and love.

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.

Survival is a genetic law.

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.

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

Sometimes people who feel powerless, they come to bother their own kids, or they come to bother children.

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.

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.

War, sometimes you have to go for it, you know?

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.

Movies dealing with social subjects in France become very paternalist. They want to teach lessons. They don't show poorness like a normal situation.

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.

Make a movie that you can be proud of.

In France now, there's no problem with official censorship. Once your movie is finished, you always are R-rated. My movie is just R-rated in France. But when you meet French producers with a script like mine, they behave like the most fragile chickens in the world. They just tell you "Oh, no. You should cut this. You should cut that." And at the end you have been totally censored on the synopsis, and then on the script.

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.

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

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

France is a very paternalistic society where people have to be introduced.

I am not a police fan at all.

I am Left Wing. I am a Humanist.

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

Being poor is a normal thing.