Quotes from Gaspar Noe

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

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.

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

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 got used to long takes with 'Irreversible' and 'Enter the Void' and also with 'Love.'

I enjoyed using cranes and using all these CGI images on 'Enter the Void.'

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.

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

When your mother dies in your arms, your perception of life changes. I think the whole thing is just a fleeting illusion.

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

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

Charisma is charisma.

Man is a moral being.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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 wanted to make a poster out of my bad reviews and frame it.