Gaspar Noe Quotes

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Gaspar Noe

Profession : Director

Birth : December 27, 1963

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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I don't like the word provocateur. It sounds like a social disease coming from France.

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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.

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I have a lot of respect for those movies, like the old 'King Kong,' which create a grand world with the tricks.

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

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Alcohol makes you stupid.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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I like laughing about cruel things because life is cruel.

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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.

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

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Every single life is about construction and destruction.

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