Gaspar Noe Quotes

#1. 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.

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#2. I feel very protected when I see a movie. That's why I like making violent movies or radical movies.

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#3. 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.

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#4. 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.

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#5. Maybe the dreams make the people stronger, whatever.

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#6. The hateful reviews are very funny. And sometimes you can enjoy a hateful review much more than a good review.

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#7. Some people take drugs in a quest for spirituality.

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

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#9. 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.

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#10. Sometimes when I make a movie, my main goal is to show the movie to one particular director.

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#11. 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.

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#12. I'm brighter when I'm not drunk; when I'm drunk, I lose part of my IQ.

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#13. 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.

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

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#15. I always think of moments of love with someone I love.

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#16. 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.

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#17. I notice that I feel safer among women when I do drugs. I would never do drugs with male friends.

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

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