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Movie Quotes by Gaspar Noe

39 Movie quotes by Gaspar Noe

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Gaspar Noe describes war as a kind of horror and wants his films to feel that realism. He often makes movies on a shoestring budget, sometimes over several years, just to show them to a specific director. He also enjoys the protective feeling that violent or radical movies can give him.

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I like 3D.

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My weapon is just a movie.

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Movies are best when your mind is open.

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Make a movie that you can be proud of.

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If I make a happy, happy movie one day, I'll think it's dull.

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When you do a movie, it comes out of many different ideas that you had.

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I'm a happy person. When a happy person makes a cruel movie, it becomes funny.

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When you make a movie, you're just having fun with the audience.

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

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I don't think of my movies as provocative.

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For all of my movies, half of the press always hates it.

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I'm very proud of every single movie, whether they make money or not.

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

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

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If there's one movie character that I wish I could be, for sure it's Travis Bickle.

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If I had to go through a tunnel ten years without making any movies like Bunuel, I don't mind, as long as…

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Weapons are the source of death. In every American movie, there are machine guns, whatever.

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One day, if I had to do a horror movie, it will be a very realistic war movie. For me, war is…

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I always thought it would be good to do a psychedelic movie like '2001: A Space Odyssey.'

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People sometimes, they just stop because they see this scope movie. They say "oh, this is a real movie, this is not…

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When you go to Cannes, people are there to fight, to scream - like football, the World Cup. Once I was working…

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I did this very cheap movie called 'Love,' and then I decided I wanted to make an even cheaper movie so people…

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I spent a long time on my first movie, which was the sequel to a short film that I did called 'Carne.'…

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When you see a movie, it's like you're attending a show of magic in which the magician pulls a rabbit out of…

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I don't believe in life after death. But I still enjoyed the idea of doing a movie that would portray that collective…

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Jason and the Argonauts' is the very first movie that I ever remember watching. My parents were living in New York and…

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The truth is, when you make movies, you have to learn how to lie. You have to convince people to give you…

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You feel touched by a movie in a good or bad way or you have a strong reaction to something that's totally…

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

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I have a lot of respect for those movies, like the old 'King Kong,' which create a grand world with the tricks.

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

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In my case, I feel very protected when I see a movie. That's why I like making violent movies or radical movies.

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Most of the directors that I show my movies before the final cut, are directors that I admire, and who do movies…

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

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80-percent of 'Enter the Void' is a traditional narrative movie. I suppose it's more similar to 'Jacob's Ladder' or 'Videodrome' than it…

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From a simple, mammal perspective, you think you're going to make friends through the movie. You think, "Oh, this kind of humor…

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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…

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In France now, there's no problem with official censorship. Once your movie is finished, you always are R-rated. My movie is just…

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I felt attacked because people rejected me. They didn't say "we can give you money to do something else if you want,"…

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One day, if I had to do a horror movie, it will be a very realistic war movie. For me, war is horror.

If you take pleasure in what you're doing, certainly the audience might, too.

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

When you first time you fall in love, you think that is going to be your whole life project, loving someone. It burns your…

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

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

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…

I don't believe in telling people you can suffer this life because you're rewarded in a future life.

Before being humans with morals, people are mostly animals, fighting for domination and survival.

I spent a long time on my first movie, which was the sequel to a short film that I did called 'Carne.' And I…

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…

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…

The American horror movies are more moralistic, they have not only good characters, but characters where the ultimate danger is death. What I like…

I always think of moments of love with someone I love.

I think in life, people know what they want. They want to survive, they want to have a family. They want to procreate because…