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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.”
“Most people who have a baby don't want to be filmed while they have a baby.”
“I spent a long time on my first movie, which was the sequel to a short film that I did called 'Carne.' And I had no money. I shot it over a period of three years, a bit like David Lynch directed 'Eraserhead.'”
“I was reading some books by Michel Houellebecq, and the first thing that comes to mind is that they're really funny, all the ways they describe the most depressing things.”
“I still can't get used to a smartphone. There's something I really dislike about it, but for a new generation, life without smartphones never existed.”
“Documentaries can provoke much more than narrative movies.”
“One day, if I had to do a horror movie, it will be a very realistic war movie. For me, war is horror.”
“Avatar' is very mind-blowing - or eye-blowing, maybe - especially in 3-D.”
“With documentary, you just pick up a camera and start.”
“I'm a happy person. When a happy person makes a cruel movie, it becomes funny.”
“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.”
“I can't prevent myself of being funny.”
“Before being humans with morals, people are mostly animals, fighting for domination and survival.”
“Lars von Trier makes funny, radical movies, some packing power. But, he's not a provocateur. He's making adult movies for an adult audience. Pasolini, too. Fassbinder, too.”
“I enjoyed using cranes and using all these CGI images on 'Enter the Void.'”
“I did this very cheap movie called 'Love,' and then I decided I wanted to make an even cheaper movie so people don't get involved and can't tell you how to rewrite it or how to avoid losing money. The good thing about doing these quite cheap movies is that you have much more freedom.”
“Yeah, I was only in New York from the age of six months until five years old. But my very first memories are all of New York. I remember my first rainbow on a beach in New York. I remember jumping on a bed in New York.”
“The truth is that... if you put any idea out there that's kind of flashy, you have many, many people that are going to be copying it. This happens whether you do movies, paintings or music.”
“My father offered me a Super8 camera that he bought in some Brazilian airport. I was 16, and shot a reel with my best friend Juan Solanas jumping from the Pont Neuf bridge. It was my first psychological drama.”
“When you do a movie, it comes out of many different ideas that you had.”