Gaspar Noe Quotes

#1. Real life oppressed me with its novelty so much that I could hardly breathe.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

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

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

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#7. If I've learned anything about prayer, it's that desperation drives discipline.

Bill Hybels

#8. 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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#9. I've never been to the Far East, but the fake city looks just like the places I've seen in the news and war movies.

Marko Kloos

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

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#11. However, just like any line of work, writing is a negotiation, and creative control is as elusive as financial stability. I discovered that writing could be like cleaning carpets or working in a factory: just a meaningless production of words.

Alice Driver

#12. Who knows what's for true once a time is past? There's no way to prove how something was that's gone. And if a time is gone, what does it matter? It's all rain into rivers now.

Jo Dereske

#13. Love is the selfishness of two persons.

Antoine De La Sale

#14. Google tells me everything I need to know about death except what comes after.

A J Betts

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

Gaspar Noe

#16. 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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#17. Once you let someone stop you from achieving your goals, you've official lost confidence in yourself.

Kris Harte

#18. 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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#19. 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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#20. Hallucinations are an inner experience in which most of the time you forget you're there.

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

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#22. When I run the world, librarians will be exempt from tragedy. Even their smaller sorrows will last only for as long as you can take out a book.

Karen Joy Fowler

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

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

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#25. If antimatter and matter make contact, both are destroyed
instantly. Physicists call the process 'annihilation.

Dan Brown

#26. 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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#27. It's B.Y.O.S. Bring Your Own Sacrifice.

Kresley Cole

#28. Politics is deliberately making things better for some people by deliberately making them worse for others.

Cillian Murphy

#29. Most of the time, the artists are not supposed to wear the fashion. It is always seen as a vanity. But I think I don't need to prove anything in my life. I can honestly say I love fashion and I can be many things at the same time.

Marina Abramovic

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

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#32. The sight of that loveliness was enough to drive all sense from a man's head.

Bernard Cornwell

#33. All the pathos and irony of leaving one's youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy can never be recovered, and the wise traveller learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.

Paul Fussell