Quotes by Leos Carax - Page 1

I don't work with people who ask me questions.
Leos Carax / Film Director
Ask Me
Asks
People
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I don't think men were meant to be interviewed.
Leos Carax / Film Director
Meant To Be
Meant
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It's incredible how much cinema can do. We forget.
Leos Carax / Film Director
Cinema
Forget
Incredibles
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I'm not only my films, but I'm pretty much my films.
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I care about cinema even though I haven't made many films.
Leos Carax / Film Director
Care
Cinema
Film
Films
Though
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I feel that cinema is my country. But it's not my business.
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Cinema
Country
Feels
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Men talk about art, and artists make art, but should artists talk?
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Art
Men
Should
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Every film starts with two or three images. Then I try to edit these images.
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Film
Three
Trying
Two
Edit
Images
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Video is freeing, but also lazier. You have to recreate the love of the moment.
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Video
Freeing
Recreate
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I'm not especially interested in actors or their life, double, triple identities and all that.
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Double
Identities
Triple
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Even a fiction film is hard to end. You can going on shooting and editing a documentary forever.
Leos Carax / Film Director
Editing
Fiction
Forever
Shooting
Documentary
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When I was 16 I discovered this island called cinema and I thought: 'Oh how wonderful, I'm ready.
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Cinema
Islands
Wonderful
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I mostly don't submit to talking about my work because I would like another talk about real life.
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Real Life
Submit
Life Work Real
Mostly
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When I was 16, I discovered this island called cinema and I thought: 'Oh, how wonderful; I'm ready.'
Leos Carax / Film Director
Cinema
Island
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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 / Film Director
Feels
Firsts
Lasts
Sometimes
Each One
First One
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There's a real cowardice in the movie business. If you don't meet the right crazy people, you can't do it.
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Cowardice
Crazy People
Movie Business
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I travel, I read, I write, I have other lives. But when I have a camera, I know that's my country, my island.
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Island
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I like tragedies, whether they're sci-fi or something else, but I can't say I know much about any genre in particular.
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Genre
Particular
Sci Fi
Something Else
Tragedies
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I've always been interested in invisible worlds, and I like to visit digital worlds, you know, any world that's imposed on us.
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Digital
Invisible
Always World Know
Imposed
Visit
Worlds
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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.
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Identity
Reinvent
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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?
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Answers
Cost
Tired
Reinvent
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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.
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Fascinating
Rich Countries
Impose
Virtual
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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.
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Beautiful
Portraits
Rooms
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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.
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Believe
Enemy
Followers
Pioneers
Believed
Follow
Virtual
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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 / Film Director
Correspondence
Feelings
Together
Trying
Edit
Images
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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.
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Cinema
Profession
Territory
Way
Life Movies Live
Exists
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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.
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Death
Cinema
Life And Death
Perspective
Relieved
Life Death Beautiful
Beautiful Place
Interested
Discover
Island
Young Person
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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 / Film Director
Proof
Shy
Suburbs
Young Man
Arrived
Bluff
Hardly
Served
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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.
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Fate
Real
Together
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