Gaspar Noe Quotes - Page 3

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

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.

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

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

Some people take drugs in a quest for spirituality.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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 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.

I am Left Wing. I am a Humanist.

Make a movie that you can be proud of.

I am not a police fan at all.

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.

Being poor is a normal thing.

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