Explore Quotes by Gaspar Noe

I don't believe in telling people you can suffer this life because you're rewarded in a future life.

The truth is, when you make movies, you have to learn how to lie. You have to convince people to give you money and you pretend they'll get double, triple or 10 times as much.

For all of my movies, half of the press always hates it.

I like 3D.

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.

The American horror movies are more moralistic, they have not only good characters, but characters where the ultimate danger is death. What I like about European cinema is they have another sense of what's good, what's bad, and sometimes all the characters are far more complex than just that. It's less binary, the Giallo genre.

I like laughing about cruel things because life is cruel.

The voice of a kid can be so much more touching than an adult voice.

Movies are best when your mind is open.

When I go to the DVD shop, I mostly buy documentaries because you learn a lot from documentaries.

When you do a movie, it comes out of many different ideas that you had.

I really disliked promoting 'Love' in America.

I'm not interested in constraining human beings like rats in a laboratory.

I don't like the word provocateur. It sounds like a social disease coming from France.

Avatar' is very mind-blowing - or eye-blowing, maybe - especially in 3-D.

When you make shorts, people don't get paid. It's mostly about being diplomatic that you're going to do a masterpiece of short cinema.

No director is independent.

I'm fascinated with old stories that you can read in newspapers that seem like catastrophe movies.

I've always been respectful to all the people who do visual effects and special effects, because making movies is also making magic.

I remember 'The Towering Inferno' when it came out, I was probably 10 years old, but I could watch it seven consecutive days in the week. I would go and watch it over and over and over.

I get very, very bored by TV series or TV movies. But when you see great acrobats on TV, my eyes stick to the screen. I can watch them forever.