On an everyday level, I use alcohol and drugs in general mostly to be in a happier mood, with the people around me.
Gaspar NoeEverybody wants to lie to himself, pretending that there's something else besides only the normal life you're living in.
Gaspar NoePeople 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.
Gaspar NoeI think it's more normal to make a movie dealing with love, sexual or not, than to make movies about bank robberies, which very rarely happen in real life. So I would say the problem is not what some people feel is normal, I would say the problem is why this whole industry is far more obsessed with filming scenes of dominance, guns, invasion.
Gaspar Noe