Gaspar Noe Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes when I make a movie, my main goal is to show the movie to one particular director. — Gaspar Noe

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. — Gaspar Noe

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

I always think of moments of love with someone I love. — Gaspar Noe

It's funny, when you start talking about primitive scenes, so many people have seen their parents having sex. — Gaspar Noe

Falling in love is when the presence of this person makes you release all kinds of substances in your brain, serotonins and endorphins. The moment you break up with that same person, you feel like a junkie who is not getting the drug anymore. Many times I've heard people say, "I'm in love with falling in love". You get all the best and all the worst in the same place. — Gaspar Noe

From a simple, mammal perspective, you think you're going to make friends through the movie. You think, "Oh, this kind of humor that I play with will bring people that have a similar kind of humor. I'll make new friends," or something. You don't even think in terms of audience or of money. — Gaspar Noe

Maybe the dreams make the people stronger, whatever. — Gaspar Noe

On an everyday level, I use alcohol and drugs in general mostly to be in a happier mood, with the people around me. — Gaspar Noe

Some people take drugs in a quest for spirituality. — Gaspar Noe

When you first time you fall in love, you think that is going to be your whole life project, loving someone. It burns your brain, you kind of become blind, the moment you see the person you're in love with you want to see that person again and again and again, kiss that person, hug that person. You turn blank to the rest of the world. — Gaspar Noe

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

I think it's more normal to make a movie dealing with love, sexual or not, than to make movies about bank robberies, which very rarely happen in real life. So I would say the problem is not what some people feel is normal, I would say the problem is why this whole industry is far more obsessed with filming scenes of dominance, guns, invasion. — Gaspar Noe

I'm brighter when I'm not drunk; when I'm drunk, I lose part of my IQ. — Gaspar Noe

The hateful reviews are very funny. And sometimes you can enjoy a hateful review much more than a good review. — Gaspar Noe

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. — Gaspar Noe

Falling in love is the most natural thing in the world. Everybody has been through it, everybody has scars, everybody wants to restart falling in love. — Gaspar Noe

When you see a movie, it's like you're attending a show of magic in which the magician pulls a rabbit out of a hat. You don't know how he did it, but a part of you is fascinated, or hypnotized, by what happened, another part of your brain says, "Oh, I want to do the same thing! I want to be that wielder of that magic. I want to be that magician on stage, and do the same thing to other people." — Gaspar Noe

What I don't like in movies dealing with the illustration of altered states of consciousness is that usually you see the guy from the outside. — Gaspar Noe

You feel touched by a movie in a good or bad way or you have a strong reaction to something that's totally artificial, to an imitation of life. But that imitation of life that you see on the screen can affect you almost as if it was real. — Gaspar Noe

Erotic movies - they don't even make it anymore. Even the erotic magazines don't really look like the ones you could find in the '70s. You have much more extreme iconography of what is sexy. It's very cold. There's nothing that links to real life. — Gaspar Noe

I notice that I feel safer among women when I do drugs. I would never do drugs with male friends. — Gaspar Noe