Top 55 Gaspar Noe Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

I forget myself when I dance.

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

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.’

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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 tried ‘Black Panther.’ I escaped from the cinema after 20 minutes. I thought it was as bad as ‘Star Wars.’ I hated ‘Star Wars.’

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 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.

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.

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

Alcohol makes you stupid.

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.

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 like laughing about cruel things because life is cruel.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

I really don’t care about the Oscars.

I would never watch the Oscar ceremony.

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

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

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 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.

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.

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.

Every single life is about construction and destruction.

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

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.

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

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

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 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.’

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

No director is independent.

For the record, I’m straight.