A real good artist is basically a grown-up kid, who never kills the kid. What we call being an adult is basically about killing the kid. People think you have to forget about the kid to become an adult and deal with grown-up problems. But, that's bullshit. We are still kids. It's the same, you just grow up. You're a kid with more experience.
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
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 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
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…
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 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…
I always try to be different. I always want to surprise myself. - Quentin Dupieux
I always try to be different. I always want to surprise myself.
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
To me, the movie is more funny if, at the same time, you can think a little bit or dream a little bit.
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
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…
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
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…
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
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…
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
It [moviemaking] is like a dream. When you're dreaming, you make some very strange connections between some random stuff and random people.
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