Gaspar Noe Quotes

I don't want to give any lines to anybody because otherwise they come out like bricks from their mouths. The important thing is the meaning of the scene, not the words you use, and I prefer that you find your own words to express the scene.

Movies dealing with social subjects in France become very paternalist. They want to teach lessons. They don't show poorness like a normal situation.

I notice that I feel safer among women when I do drugs. I would never do drugs with male friends.

It's not that I dislike the police, but I would never go to the police for anything. It's just that I prefer not..., not calling them.

If you sue somebody it takes two years, three years, and your anger just gets lost in between. And even if you win or lose the trial, it takes such a long time. If you want to really take a personal revenge, you'd better do it by yourself and at the right time.

You wake up because you killed someone and you're afraid of going to jail. And the moment you wake up you feel safe and it's over and you can meet that person in the street and you're not going to jail. The good thing about dreams is that they erase some kind of desire, because after your dreams you feel you've done it, and you're relieved.

In France now, there's no problem with official censorship. Once your movie is finished, you always are R-rated. My movie is just R-rated in France. But when you meet French producers with a script like mine, they behave like the most fragile chickens in the world. They just tell you "Oh, no. You should cut this. You should cut that." And at the end you have been totally censored on the synopsis, and then on the script.

I'm not sure that people want to go back to the womb. People want to go back to the teats of your mother and hear your mother's heartbeat.

I feel very protected when I see a movie. That's why I like making violent movies or radical movies.

When you go to Cannes, people are there to fight, to scream - like football, the World Cup. Once I was working on a movie, and then when I went to Cannes, I went there to whistle at all the other movies in competition. You go to help your friends and fight with your friends' enemies.

Man is a moral being.

The good thing about forbidding the death penalty is that society won't be able to kill people who are not guilty, but at the same time there are some people that are just such a mental mess that, you know, they will never get out of their obsessions and they can keep them forever.

If someone disturbs you... they didn't kill you, but you really feel like "I wish this guy was dead"... you know that you will not kill him yourself, but if he gets struck by a truck or by a train, you would really be happy.

Societies have progressed much more during times of peace than during wars.

In France, it's just.., if you're the son of someone, you can be sure that you will have a good life. Because you're the son of this guy or the daughter of that guy you will be introduced to this person who will give you a job even if you're totally incompetent.

You can put whatever you want inside evil and good in morality.

In North America someone who doesn't know anybody, he can go... you can be respected for your own identity. It pushes your personality to become stronger.

When you start a movie... when it's a short, people don't care... but when it's a feature they want money.

If the Nazis have been destroyed it's because America got into the war. They went for it and they got into the fight.

If you're a Bosnian and suddenly you get attacked by the Serbs, there's just one way of getting rid of your opponents. It's taking revenge and trying to fight as hard as you can.

You feel touched by a movie in a good or bad way or you have a strong reaction to something that's totally artificial, to an imitation of life. But that imitation of life that you see on the screen can affect you almost as if it was real.

Being poor is a normal thing.

The hateful reviews are very funny. And sometimes you can enjoy a hateful review much more than a good review.

Sometimes you have the chance to do one movie, make it the best you can, put everything in it.

People 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.

Hallucinations are an inner experience in which most of the time you forget you're there.

Sometimes when I make a movie, my main goal is to show the movie to one particular director.It's not about competing. It's mostly about someone who did something that blew your mind and you want to see if you can render the joy.

Maybe the dreams make the people stronger, whatever.

Everybody wants to lie to himself, pretending that there's something else besides only the normal life you're living in.

I would have to take some kind of revenge if my girlfriend had been aggressed, my mother had been aggressed, or my kids had been aggressed. I think I would go for personal revenge.

That's why workers in France like horsemeat, because it's like a male thing that makes you strong. Cow meat is a much more female meat.

People sometimes, they just stop because they see this scope movie. They say "oh, this is a real movie, this is not a TV movie."

I prefer periods of peace and love.

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

America in some ways is much more of a democracy then France. It is and it's not.

When you first time you fall in love, you think that is going to be your whole life project, loving someone. It burns your brain, you kind of become blind, the moment you see the person you're in love with you want to see that person again and again and again, kiss that person, hug that person. You turn blank to the rest of the world.

From a simple, mammal perspective, you think you're going to make friends through the movie. You think, "Oh, this kind of humor that I play with will bring people that have a similar kind of humor. I'll make new friends," or something. You don't even think in terms of audience or of money.

I think that wars will never stop, it's just that there are sides. You have to choose your side. And there are more progressive sides.

In life, some people just know that they have the power of their money. They can sign checks, contracts, and things like that. And they think they are bright just because they can sign these things because someone gave them the possibility to have this economic power over you. And they behave as censors.

War, sometimes you have to go for it, you know?

Sometimes I have better relationships with my barber then with people who are into cinema from an upper class.

I always think of moments of love with someone I love.

Filmmaking is just a very luxurious and efficient way of expressing yourself.

Falling in love is when the presence of this person makes you release all kinds of substances in your brain, serotonins and endorphins. The moment you break up with that same person, you feel like a junkie who is not getting the drug anymore. Many times I've heard people say, "I'm in love with falling in love". You get all the best and all the worst in the same place.

I 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.

My weapon is just a movie.