Quotes from Gaspar Noe

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.

Hallucinations are an inner experience in which most of the time you forget you're there.

I'm not interested in constraining human beings like rats in a laboratory.

One day, if I had to do a horror movie, it will be a very realistic war movie. For me, war is horror.

I know that sometimes in my own life I really felt like killing people.

I'm a happy person. When a happy person makes a cruel movie, it becomes funny.

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

When you make a movie, you're just having fun with the audience.

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.

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.

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

I prefer periods of peace and love.

Listen to the works of your idols, not your teachers.

The voice of a kid can be so much more touching than an adult voice.

I think that people can fall in love with someone who is not of their own generation.

Every single life is about construction and destruction.

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.

When you're dead, you're dead. I believe in shapes - you're not conscious of it, but you're like a tree that grows but takes a particular shape that is prewritten.

I'm not sure that people want to go back to the womb. People want to go back to the teats of your mother and hear your mother's heartbeat.

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.

The truth is, when you make movies, you have to learn how to lie. You have to convince people to give you money and you pretend they'll get double, triple or 10 times as much.

It's very nice to hear something very soft to your ear when you have something very hard to your eyes.

Death is not evil. Death can be good news. It all depends. Some people come to this world and live in hell so birth is not always positive. Death can sometimes be positive.

Avatar' is very mind-blowing - or eye-blowing, maybe - especially in 3-D.