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.
Gaspar NoeI wanted to do comic books... as a comic book artist, as an illustrator. But I'm not very good so I thought I should do something else! So I went to a film school when I was seventeen and came out when I was nineteen.
Gaspar NoeI 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.
Gaspar NoeWhen 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."
Gaspar NoeWhat 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.
Gaspar NoeThe 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.
Gaspar NoeErotic 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.
Gaspar NoeSome 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.
Gaspar NoeThe negative has to be done on an A and B [roll] so you don't see the cuts, the splices on the frameline.
Gaspar NoeI 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.
Gaspar NoeTokyo 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.
Gaspar NoeI'm sure if you were a Bosnian during the war, you would wish to kill Serbs. Just because it is the opposite of you and because they're aggressors. And also, it happens to me when I get attacked.
Gaspar NoeThe 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.
Gaspar NoeI 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!"
Gaspar NoeIn 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.
Gaspar NoeIn French you say, "I'm alone against the world" and that means "I hate everybody and everybody's against me."
Gaspar NoeOn an everyday level, I use alcohol and drugs in general mostly to be in a happier mood, with the people around me.
Gaspar Noefalling 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.
Gaspar NoeIf 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.
Gaspar NoeI think that it's much brighter just to assume that you're an animal in the jungle and you have to survive.
Gaspar NoeIf 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.
Gaspar NoeI 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.
Gaspar NoeI'm very much into vengeance, in the way that if someone attacks you, you have to attack him twice if you want to survive.
Gaspar NoeI'm not from a lower social level, but I think I relate more to lower levels then to people who've got money.
Gaspar NoeIt's funny, when you start talking about primitive scenes, so many people have seen their parents having sex.
Gaspar NoeMy 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.
Gaspar NoeThe only reason I would call the police is if someone is getting aggressed in the street and I'm behind a window.
Gaspar NoeIn England they need a king, in Spain they need a king, in France there is no more king. But they consider the president as if he was a king.
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