Gaspar Noe Quotes - Page 2

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.

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!"

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

Tokyo is like a huge futuristic pinball machine. It's like a bubble with two lost creatures inside a pinball machine that doesn't care about them. The other thing is, it's very colorful.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Horsemeat is the most male meat you can think of.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

I had very good LSD, but the problem was - I tried making a film, or doing some filming, when I was on LSD, and it's impossible. I couldn't focus. I tried focusing, but when I looked through the lens, I'd see all different layers of focus, and I couldn't find which was the real one behind the camera. And I just thought, this does not work, and I never tried that again.

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

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.