Carax Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. Men talk about art, and artists make art, but should artists talk?

Leos Carax

#4. I care about cinema even though I haven't made many films.

Leos Carax

#5. I'm not only my films, but I'm pretty much my films.

Leos Carax

#6. 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

#7. It's incredible how much cinema can do. We forget.

Leos Carax

#8. 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

#9. I feel that cinema is my country. But it's not my business.

Leos Carax

#10. Even a fiction film is hard to end. You can going on shooting and editing a documentary forever.

Leos Carax

#11. Video is freeing, but also lazier. You have to recreate the love of the moment.

Leos Carax

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

Leos Carax

#13. I'm not especially interested in actors or their life, double, triple identities and all that.

Leos Carax

#14. 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

#15. I don't think men were meant to be interviewed.

Leos Carax

#16. 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

#17. I mostly don't submit to talking about my work because I would like another talk about real life.

Leos Carax

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. I don't work with people who ask me questions.

Leos Carax

#24. 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

#25. 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

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

Leos Carax

#27. 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

#28. Every film starts with two or three images. Then I try to edit these images.

Leos Carax

#29. 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

#30. 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