Gaspar Noe

“I forget myself when I dance.”

“Most of the directors that I show my movies before the final cut, are directors that I admire, and who do movies that are very different from mine.”

“I like 3D.”

“When your brain and body stop working, it turns into hell. Death is at that point desired. It's the best thing that can happen.”

“I'm so used to bad reviews. I really enjoy them when they're very mean!”

“Even the most achieved life ends up in the hospital with your body and brain falling into pieces.”

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

“There are periods in your life in which you dream much more as an artist - you remember your dreams in the morning, and there are periods in your life that for one month or two months you don't remember any dreams.”

“If Kubrick made me love forever the film language, Scorsese made me love actors. And 'Raging Bull' is my favorite male performance ever.”

“I'm fascinated with old stories that you can read in newspapers that seem like catastrophe movies.”

“The American horror movies are more moralistic, they have not only good characters, but characters where the ultimate danger is death. What I like about European cinema is they have another sense of what's good, what's bad, and sometimes all the characters are far more complex than just that. It's less binary, the Giallo genre.”

“Love' touches women more. They say it is feminist.”

“There are two major masterpieces that really brought the language of dreams or nightmares to the screen. The initial one is Dali and Bunuel's 'Un Chien Andalou,' and then later, David Lynch's 'Eraserhead.'”

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

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

“I don't think of my movies as provocative.”

“Tokyo's like a huge pinball machine. The first time you're there, and you don't understand what's going on, it's like 'ding ding ding ding ding' everywhere. The lights are changing, the neon lights are moving.”

“When I go to the DVD shop, I mostly buy documentaries because you learn a lot from documentaries.”

“I went to see some voguing ballrooms and krump battles, and I was hypnotized by their body language. These guys, who are usually very poor, become stars onstage once a month in a ballroom or in a battle.”

“I would have a problem directing a scene like most directors do, in that TV style. I would get bored, I don't enjoy editing in the classic way.”