Top 29 Quotes & Sayings by Leos Carax

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Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Alex Christophe Dupont, best known as Leos Carax, is a French film director, critic, and writer. Carax is noted for his poetic style and his tortured depictions of love. His first major work was Boy Meets Girl (1984), and his notable works include Les Amants du Pont-Neuf (1991), Holy Motors (2012) and Annette (2021). For the latter, he won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Director at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival. His professional name is an anagram of his real name, 'Alex', and 'Oscar'.

French - Director | Born: November 22, 1960

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Even a fiction film is hard to end. You can going on shooting and editing a documentary forever.

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I'm not against the virtual world; it's fascinating, but I don't like the way they try to impose it on us. It's a thing imposed by rich countries.

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I like tragedies, whether they're sci-fi or something else, but I can't say I know much about any genre in particular.

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Every film starts with two or three images. Then I try to edit these images.

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Men talk about art, and artists make art, but should artists talk?

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I don't work with people who ask me questions.

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There's a real cowardice in the movie business. If you don't meet the right crazy people, you can't do it.

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We all get a little tired of being ourselves sometimes. The answer is to reinvent yourself, but how do you do that and what is the cost?

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Video is freeing, but also lazier. You have to recreate the love of the moment.

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When I made my first film, I had hardly ever seen a camera before, and I was a young man when I arrived in Paris from the suburbs. At the time, I didn't talk much. I was very shy, so the bluff served me. I was telling people that I had no money, and that I knew how to make films, but I had no proof.

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I mostly don't submit to talking about my work because I would like another talk about real life.

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I'm not especially interested in actors or their life, double, triple identities and all that.

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Cinema is a territory. It exists outside of movies. It's a place I live in. It's a way of seeing things, of experiencing life. But making films, that's supposed to be a profession.

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I've always been interested in invisible worlds, and I like to visit digital worlds, you know, any world that's imposed on us.

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The virtual world is not the enemy. The pioneers invented a world they believed in, but the followers must follow that world whether they believe in it or not.

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I feel that cinema is my country. But it's not my business.

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I'm not a cineaste. I've made so few films. Sometimes it feels each one is the last one or the first one.

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I care about cinema even though I haven't made many films.

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I travel, I read, I write, I have other lives. But when I have a camera, I know that's my country, my island.

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When I was 16, I felt very relieved to discover cinema. It was like an island where I could see life and death from another perspective. Every young person should be interested in that island. It's a beautiful place.

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I changed my name when I was 13. I don't know why but it made sense at the time. I wanted another identity. I wanted to reinvent myself.

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When I was 16, I discovered this island called cinema and I thought: 'Oh, how wonderful; I'm ready.'

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I'm not only my films, but I'm pretty much my films.

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I don't think men were meant to be interviewed.

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My films start with images, a few images and a few feelings, and I try to edit them together to see the correspondence between these images and these feelings.

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I thank Henry James for the scene in the hotel room, that I stole from Portrait Of A Lady… This particular scene is the most beautiful scene ever written.

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It's incredible how much cinema can do. We forget.

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The film is therefore a form of science fiction, in which humans, beasts and machines are on the verge of extinction - 'sacred motors' linked together by a common fate and solidarity, slaves to an increasingly virtual world. A world from which visible machines, real experiences and actions are gradually disappearing.

Leos Carax

When I was 16 I discovered this island called cinema and I thought: 'Oh how wonderful, I'm ready.

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Top 29 Quotes & Sayings by Leos Carax

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