Gaspar Noe

“There is an animal instinct force in humans that creates passion. When you love sometimes you cross a border.”

“Jason and the Argonauts' is the very first movie that I ever remember watching. My parents were living in New York and I was a very young kid. And I remember being in front of my TV all alone watching skeletons fighting with swords. For me it was magic.”

“I like not cutting scenes. I like going from one head to another head talking. I like that energy.”

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

“Alcohol makes you stupid.”

“I used to consume a lot of horror movies as a teenager, and some impressed me more than other ones. I would watch Romero's movies, Dario Argento's movies, 'Eraserhead' over and over. 'Possession,' 'Repulsion,' 'Freaks.'”

“I've always been respectful to all the people who do visual effects and special effects, because making movies is also making magic.”

“I remember 'The Towering Inferno' when it came out, I was probably 10 years old, but I could watch it seven consecutive days in the week. I would go and watch it over and over and over.”

“I don't believe in life after death. But I still enjoyed the idea of doing a movie that would portray that collective dream, that collective need. Like flying saucers are a collective need for people who need to believe in flying saucers. You don't need to believe in flying saucers to do a movie about Martians or flying saucers.”

“It's funny how much the lie of a life after life works with people. Even people who are non-believers seem to think that their soul is going to survive.”

“I like laughing about cruel things because life is cruel.”

“I would never watch the Oscar ceremony.”

“If I cared about who was winning the Oscar, it was when I was a kid when they were giving awards to 'Midnight Cowboy' or 'The Godfather.'”

“Before being a person, man is an animal, with all its reptilian compulsions. And if at some point you block the conscious part of the mind, you've got all the reptilian compulsions that come out.”

“I watch the Cannes awards ceremony because I relate more to the films that are competing in Cannes than the ones competing for the Oscars.”

“Life is a short game. If you want to be bisexual, pansexual, do it.”

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

“I am not the Marquis de Sade.”

“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 is to 'Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome' by Kenneth Anger, which is very experimental. It's the other 10% of 20% that reminds you of the language and glamour of dreams.”

“I really disliked promoting 'Love' in America.”