Leos Carax Quotes

I care about cinema even though I haven't made many films.

The virtual world is not the enemy. The pioneers invented a world they believed in, but the followers must follow that world whether they believe in it or not.

My films start with images, a few images and a few feelings, and I try to edit them together to see the correspondence between these images and these feelings.

I feel that cinema is my country. But it's not my business.

The film is therefore a form of science fiction, in which humans, beasts and machines are on the verge of extinction - 'sacred motors' linked together by a common fate and solidarity, slaves to an increasingly virtual world. A world from which visible machines, real experiences and actions are gradually disappearing.

I thank Henry James for the scene in the hotel room, that I stole from Portrait Of A Lady… This particular scene is the most beautiful scene ever written.

I'm not only my films, but I'm pretty much my films.

When I was 16 I discovered this island called cinema and I thought: 'Oh how wonderful, I'm ready.

It's incredible how much cinema can do. We forget.

I don't work with people who ask me questions.

We all get a little tired of being ourselves sometimes. The answer is to reinvent yourself, but how do you do that and what is the cost?

I'm not a cineaste. I've made so few films. Sometimes it feels each one is the last one or the first one.

Every film starts with two or three images. Then I try to edit these images.

Men talk about art, and artists make art, but should artists talk?

Cinema is a territory. It exists outside of movies. It's a place I live in. It's a way of seeing things, of experiencing life. But making films, that's supposed to be a profession.

Even a fiction film is hard to end. You can going on shooting and editing a documentary forever.