Quotes by Leos Carax

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

Life

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

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Wisdom

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

Wisdom

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

Life

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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Wisdom

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

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Success

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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Wisdom

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

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Life

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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Life

Men talk about art, and artists make art, but should artists talk?

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Wisdom

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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Wisdom

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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Life

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.

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Wisdom

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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Wisdom

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

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Wisdom

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

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Wisdom

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

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Wisdom

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

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Success

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

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Wisdom

I'm not a cineaste. I've made so few films. Sometimes it feels each one is the last one or the first one.

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Wisdom

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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Life

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

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Wisdom

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

— Leos Carax

Love

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

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Wisdom