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

Leos Carax

#3. 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

#4. Cigars, of course, are made of trail mix, of crushed cashews and Granola and raisins, soaked in maple syrup and dried in the sun. Why not eat one tonight at bedtime?

Kurt Vonnegut

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

Leos Carax

#6. 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

#7. Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.

Walter Pater

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

Leos Carax

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

Leos Carax

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

Leos Carax

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

Leos Carax

#12. I will now teach my son Increase (and others of my children) the way of raising a lesson out of every verse in his reading of the Bible; and of turning it into a Prayer; and engage him (and them) unto a daily Course in reading the Bible in such a way

Cotton Mather

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

Leos Carax

#14. 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

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

Leos Carax

#16. 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

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

Leos Carax

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

Leos Carax

#19. Her head had turned quickly away ... Not to hide her tears but to soften the fact of their absence.

Gregory Maguire

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

Leos Carax

#21. 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

#22. The family was God's idea, not our own, and it is still a wonderful institution.

James C. Dobson

#23. 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

#24. 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

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

Leos Carax

#26. 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

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

Leos Carax

#28. If you want to know whether soccer is big in America, pick a weekend, go to any park in the land, and pay attention. We're there. We've always been.

Rabih Alameddine

#29. 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

#30. 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

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

Leos Carax

#32. 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

#33. 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

#34. Most of the propositions and questions to be found in philosophical works are not false but nonsensical.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#35. 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

#36. Surely hearts feel tranquil whenever God is mentioned.
Quran-Alrad(28)

Anonymous

#37. 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

#38. SITTING TIGHT? Holing up? Waiting for answers?
Those are things I'm not good at.
Planning a massive attack against mechanical geeky-like things when i was already furious and itching to kill something?
Piece o'cake

James Patterson