Leos Carax famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Two #Trying #Three
I care about cinema even though I haven't made many films.
-- Leos Carax

#Cinema #Care #Film
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.
-- Leos Carax

#Cinema #Territory #Way
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

#Lasts #Firsts #Sometimes
I don't work with people who ask me questions.
-- Leos Carax

#People #Ask Me
Men talk about art, and artists make art, but should artists talk?
-- Leos Carax

#Art #Artist #Men
I feel that cinema is my country. But it's not my business.
-- Leos Carax

#Country #Cinema #Feels
When I was 16, I discovered this island called cinema and I thought: 'Oh, how wonderful; I'm ready.'
-- Leos Carax

#Islands #Cinema #Wonderful
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

#Believe #Enemy #Pioneers
I'm not only my films, but I'm pretty much my films.
-- Leos Carax

#Film
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

#Tired #Cost #Answers
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

#Feelings #Trying #Together
Even a fiction film is hard to end. You can going on shooting and editing a documentary forever.
-- Leos Carax

#Editing #Forever #Fiction
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.
-- Leos Carax

#Beautiful #Portraits #Rooms
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.
-- Leos Carax

#Real #Fate #Together

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