Top quotes by Gaspar Noe

I am Left Wing. I am a Humanist. Votes: 12

What 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. Votes: 6

Being poor is a normal thing. Votes: 6

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. Votes: 5

America in some ways is much more of a democracy then France. It is and it's not. Votes: 3

Filmmaking is just a very luxurious and efficient way of expressing yourself. Votes: 3

France is a very paternalistic society where people have to be introduced. Votes: 3

Hallucinations are an inner experience in which most of the time you forget you're there. Votes: 3

I know that sometimes in my own life I really felt like killing people. Votes: 3

I 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. Votes: 3

I think that it's much brighter just to assume that you're an animal in the jungle and you have to survive. Votes: 3

I think that people can fall in love with someone who is not of their own generation. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Erotic 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. Votes: 2

I always think of moments of love with someone I love. Votes: 2

Everybody wants to lie to himself, pretending that there's something else besides only the normal life you're living in. Votes: 0

falling 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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I am not a police fan at all. Votes: 0

I belong to the petit bourgoiusie somehow, because of my parents. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I feel very protected when I see a movie. That's why I like making violent movies or radical movies. Votes: 0

I 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!" Votes: 0

I prefer periods of peace and love. Votes: 0

I 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. Votes: 0

I think in life, people know what they want. They want to survive, they want to have a family. They want to procreate because it's in the genetic law. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I think there can be incestuous love. Votes: 0

I think you direct a movie just to express your own self. Votes: 0

I 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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

If 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. Votes: 0

If 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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

If the Nazis have been destroyed it's because America got into the war. They went for it and they got into the fight. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I'm brighter when I'm not drunk; when I'm drunk, I lose part of my IQ. Votes: 0

I'm not from a lower social level, but I think I relate more to lower levels then to people who've got money. Votes: 0

I'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. Votes: 0

In 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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

In France, like in most countries, the respect you receive depends on your class. Votes: 0

In French you say, "I'm alone against the world" and that means "I hate everybody and everybody's against me." Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

In 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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It's funny, when you start talking about primitive scenes, so many people have seen their parents having sex. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Make a movie that you can be proud of. Votes: 0

Man is a moral being. Votes: 0

Maybe the dreams make the people stronger, whatever. Votes: 0

Most people feel aggressed by anything that is different from them. Votes: 0

Movies dealing with social subjects in France become very paternalist. They want to teach lessons. They don't show poorness like a normal situation. Votes: 0

My 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. Votes: 0

My father is much more into forgetting and forgiving, but I'm much more into revenge. Votes: 0

My weapon is just a movie. Votes: 0

On an everyday level, I use alcohol and drugs in general mostly to be in a happier mood, with the people around me. Votes: 0

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." Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Scope movies shown on TV letter-boxed are always the big budget movies. Votes: 0

Societies have progressed much more during times of peace than during wars. Votes: 0

Some 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. Votes: 0

Some people take drugs in a quest for spirituality. Votes: 0

Sometimes I have better relationships with my barber then with people who are into cinema from an upper class. Votes: 0

Sometimes people who feel powerless, they come to bother their own kids, or they come to bother children. Votes: 0

Sometimes when I make a movie, my main goal is to show the movie to one particular director. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Sometimes you have the chance to do one movie, make it the best you can, put everything in it. Votes: 0

Survival is a genetic law. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The 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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The hateful reviews are very funny. And sometimes you can enjoy a hateful review much more than a good review. Votes: 0

The negative has to be done on an A and B [roll] so you don't see the cuts, the splices on the frameline. Votes: 0

The only reason I would call the police is if someone is getting aggressed in the street and I'm behind a window. Votes: 0

The 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. Votes: 0

Vengeance is a human right. Votes: 0

War, sometimes you have to go for it, you know? Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

When 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." Votes: 0

When you start a movie... when it's a short, people don't care... but when it's a feature they want money. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I'm very much into vengeance, in the way that if someone attacks you, you have to attack him twice if you want to survive. Votes: 0

You can put whatever you want inside evil and good in morality. Votes: 0

Horsemeat is the most male meat you can think of. Votes: -1

I notice that I feel safer among women when I do drugs. I would never do drugs with male friends. Votes: -1