Carax Quotes & Sayings

I care about cinema even though I haven't made many films. — Leos Carax

Don't laugh, it's people like her who make this lousy
world a place worth visiting.'
'Whores?'
'No. We're all whores, sooner or later. I mean
good-hearted people. And don't look at me like that. Weddings turn me to jelly.'
We remained there embracing that special silence, gazing at the reflections on the water. After a while dawn tinged the sky with amber, and Barcelona woke up. We heard the distant bells from the basilica of Santa Maria del Mar, just emerging from the mist on the other side of the harbour.
'Do you think Carax is still there, somewhere in the
city?' I asked.
'Ask me another question.'
'Do you have the rings?'
Fermin smiled. 'Come on, let's go. They're waiting for us, Daniel. Life is waiting for us. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I'm not a cineaste. I've made so few films. Sometimes it feels each one is the last one or the first one. — Leos Carax

I don't work with people who ask me questions. — Leos Carax

I mostly don't submit to talking about my work because I would like another talk about real life. — Leos Carax

I like tragedies, whether they're sci-fi or something else, but I can't say I know much about any genre in particular. — Leos Carax

I feel that cinema is my country. But it's not my business. — Leos Carax

I'm not especially interested in actors or their life, double, triple identities and all that. — Leos Carax

I thank Henry James for the scene in the hotel room, that I stole from Portrait Of A Lady This particular scene is the most beautiful scene ever written. — Leos Carax

I'm not only my films, but I'm pretty much my films. — Leos Carax

I don't think men were meant to be interviewed. — Leos Carax

Every film starts with two or three images. Then I try to edit these images. — Leos Carax

I travel, I read, I write, I have other lives. But when I have a camera, I know that's my country, my island. — Leos Carax

The virtual world is not the enemy. The pioneers invented a world they believed in, but the followers must follow that world whether they believe in it or not. — Leos Carax

Cinema is a territory. It exists outside of movies. It's a place I live in. It's a way of seeing things, of experiencing life. But making films, that's supposed to be a profession. — Leos Carax

We all get a little tired of being ourselves sometimes. The answer is to reinvent yourself, but how do you do that and what is the cost? — Leos Carax

What I love about the filmmakers that I mentioned [Danny Boyle,Leo Carax], is that it's visual but it's also, you see that the characters are the most important thing. The actors are the most important thing. — Fredrik Bond

There's a real cowardice in the movie business. If you don't meet the right crazy people, you can't do it. — Leos Carax

I knew that Clara kept Carax's book in a glass cabinet by the arch of the balcony. I crept up to it. My plan, or my lack of it, was to lay my hands on the book, take it out of there, give it to that lunatic, and lose sight of him forever after. Nobody would notice the book's absence, except me. Carax's book was waiting for me, as it always did, its spine just visible at the end of a shelf. I took it in my hands and pressed it against my chest, as if embracing an old friend whom I was about to betray. Judas, I thought. I decided to leave the place without making Clara aware of my presence. I would take the book and disappear from Clara's life forever. Quietly, I stepped out of the library. The door of her bedroom was just visible at the end of the corridor ... I walked slowly up to the door. I put my fingers on the doorknob. My fingers trembled. I had arrived too late. I swallowed hard and opened the door. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

The film is therefore a form of science fiction, in which humans, beasts and machines are on the verge of extinction - 'sacred motors' linked together by a common fate and solidarity, slaves to an increasingly virtual world. A world from which visible machines, real experiences and actions are gradually disappearing. — Leos Carax

Video is freeing, but also lazier. You have to recreate the love of the moment. — Leos Carax

When I was 16, I discovered this island called cinema and I thought: 'Oh, how wonderful; I'm ready.' — Leos Carax

When I made my first film, I had hardly ever seen a camera before, and I was a young man when I arrived in Paris from the suburbs. At the time, I didn't talk much. I was very shy, so the bluff served me. I was telling people that I had no money, and that I knew how to make films, but I had no proof. — Leos Carax

I've always been interested in invisible worlds, and I like to visit digital worlds, you know, any world that's imposed on us. — Leos Carax

Fermin shook his head. 'And is that why you believe that if you manage to unravel the mystery of Julian Carax and rescue him from oblivion, the face of your mother will come back to you?'
I looked at him. There was no irony or judgment in his expression. For a moment Fermin Romero de Torres seemed to me the wisest and most lucid man in the universe. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Girls always told me..."Don't complicate things." I did my best. It was so hard to keep things simple. — Leos Carax

It's incredible how much cinema can do. We forget. — Leos Carax

Even a fiction film is hard to end. You can going on shooting and editing a documentary forever. — Leos Carax

My films start with images, a few images and a few feelings, and I try to edit them together to see the correspondence between these images and these feelings. — Leos Carax

I changed my name when I was 13. I don't know why but it made sense at the time. I wanted another identity. I wanted to reinvent myself. — Leos Carax

Men talk about art, and artists make art, but should artists talk? — Leos Carax

When I was 16, I felt very relieved to discover cinema. It was like an island where I could see life and death from another perspective. Every young person should be interested in that island. It's a beautiful place. — Leos Carax

I have 30 years of experience working with Leos Carax, so all the films of Leos Carax are unusual or unique. I look at them as a journey: a journey which is very personal to Leos. — Denis Lavant

I'm not against the virtual world; it's fascinating, but I don't like the way they try to impose it on us. It's a thing imposed by rich countries. — Leos Carax