Around age 18, I decided to start writing my own stuff. I wrote some bad short films and shot them. I tried to make them better and better. I slowly …

- Quentin Dupieux

When I'm on the set, I take five minutes to find the best angle for a scene, and then we just shoot it and it looks exactly what you see on screen be…

- Quentin Dupieux

When you watch an audience watching my movies, you realize that nobody laughs at the same time. Some people enjoy a beat, and then another group of p…

- Quentin Dupieux

I always try to be different. I always want to surprise myself.

- Quentin Dupieux

So many people are killing their childhood. It's like, "Okay, today I've decided I'm gonna be a grown-up, and I'm not a kid anymore." But, that's bul…

- Quentin Dupieux

To me, the movie is more funny if, at the same time, you can think a little bit or dream a little bit.

- Quentin Dupieux

I'm just trying to find some secret places in the human brain because I think movies tend to be too rational sometimes. Everything is supposed to mak…

- Quentin Dupieux

That's what happens with most comedies. If you watch 10 minutes and there's no joke, then you're disappointed because you're expecting jokes. The sam…

- Quentin Dupieux

It [moviemaking] is like a dream. When you're dreaming, you make some very strange connections between some random stuff and random people.

- Quentin Dupieux