Top 50 Gaspar Noe Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

I can’t prevent myself of being funny.

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

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

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

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 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.

I am not the Marquis de Sade.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.’

For the record, I’m straight.

I was considered a crazy guy.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Every single life is about construction and destruction.

I forget myself when I dance.

Documentaries can provoke much more than narrative movies.

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

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

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

I would never watch the Oscar ceremony.

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

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

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

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

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