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.
Leos CaraxMy 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.
Leos CaraxWe 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?
Leos CaraxI thank Henry James for the scene in the hotel room, that I stole from Portrait Of A Ladyโฆ This particular scene is the most beautiful scene ever written.
Leos CaraxCinema 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.
Leos CaraxThe 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.
Leos Carax