Quotes from Gaspar Noe

I get very, very bored by TV series or TV movies. But when you see great acrobats on TV, my eyes stick to the screen. I can watch them forever.

I'm very much into vengeance, in the way that if someone attacks you, you have to attack him twice if you want to survive.

Movies dealing with social subjects in France become very paternalist. They want to teach lessons. They don't show poorness like a normal situation.

I think in life, people know what they want. They want to survive, they want to have a family. They want to procreate because it's in the genetic law.

When you start a movie... when it's a short, people don't care... but when it's a feature they want money.

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

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.

I think that wars will never stop, it's just that there are sides. You have to choose your side. And there are more progressive sides.

War, sometimes you have to go for it, you know?

I'm sure if you were a Bosnian during the war, you would wish to kill Serbs. Just because it is the opposite of you and because they're aggressors. And also, it happens to me when I get attacked.

If the Nazis have been destroyed it's because America got into the war. They went for it and they got into the fight.

You know it's a great story when you identify with the main character to the point that you forget you're a spectator or a reader.

I still can't get used to a smartphone. There's something I really dislike about it, but for a new generation, life without smartphones never existed.

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

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 tried 'Black Panther.' I escaped from the cinema after 20 minutes. I thought it was as bad as 'Star Wars.' I hated 'Star Wars.'

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 think life after death is in the mind of the people around you. It's what's left in this world in the memory of others, but when the flesh starts rotting, the spirit disappears.

If you can make something that looks new - novelty is exciting.

Sometimes you don't want to abandon a project to go to another move and come back, so maybe because I have a manic obsession I stick to my idea, and I'd rather wait than do something that is not my main passion.

I can't stand musicals, but I love dance because it's a corporeal language that can be so rich and sometimes so unusual.

My characters are never heroic. They are mostly lost and trying to find the right door to open and they end up opening the wrong doors.

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.'

I would never watch the Oscar ceremony.