Quotes from Gaspar Noe

I like laughing about cruel things because life is cruel.

I mostly get bored by comedies, action movies, science fiction movies - they are so predictable.

In 'Climax' there are all kinds of colours of skin, all kinds of genders, sexual preferences - but I don't care, I chose my favourite dancers.

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.

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

Seventies cinema - 'Taxi Driver,' 'Deliverance' - that was the best period of American cinema.

Everybody wants to lie to himself, pretending that there's something else besides only the normal life you're living in.

I can't prevent myself of being funny.

I think that in some ways 'Climax' is easier to digest than my other movies because the characters are easier to identify with. You love them because they're young, they're great dancers, they're beautiful, and they are willing to construct something. They're not losers like most of the characters of my previous movies.

When you make shorts, people don't get paid. It's mostly about being diplomatic that you're going to do a masterpiece of short cinema.

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 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.

France is a very paternalistic society where people have to be introduced.

I want to make clear that I do not promote any belief of a lord or a reward after this lifetime. If you want to be rewarded, reward yourself during this lifetime. No one is going to help you out.

I really disliked promoting 'Love' in America.

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

On my sets, everybody seems very relaxed. I always try to avoid any tension before it even begins. A shooting has to be like a party. The creative process must be joyful, even if the final result is meant to be sad or scary.

I don't think of my movies as provocative.

Documentaries can provoke much more than narrative movies.

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

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.

I forget myself when I dance.

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

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.