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

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Source : "Q&A: Leos Carax Explains ‘Holy Motors’ and Why He Wants to Make a Superhero Movie". Interview with Eric Kohn, www.indiewire.com. October 15, 2012.

Leos Carax

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“We've all got the power in our hands to kill, but most people are afraid to use it. The ones who aren't afraid, control life itself.”
“Mary frowned. A vampire doctor. Talk about exploring your alternative therapies.”
“Love cannot last without a foundation of forgiveness.”
“Summing it Up..."Where's a good place for dinner?" I asked. "There's the Brasserie Lipp on the Avenue St. Germaine," she said, "or La Coupole in Montmartre." "Not La Coupole," I said. "I've been there before. That's the place that's crowded and noisy and smells bad and everybody's rude as hell, isn't it?" "I think you just described France," she said.”
“I could never adjust to the separate waiting rooms, separate eating places, separate rest rooms, partly because the separate was always unequal, and partly because the very idea of separation did something to my sense of dignity and self-respect.”
“Iâ€™m just a storyteller, and the cinema happens to be my medium. I like it because it recreates life in movement, enlarges it, enhances it, distills it. For me, itâ€™s far closer to the miraculous creation of life than, say, a painting or music or even literature. Itâ€™s not just an art form; itâ€™s actually a new form of life, with its own rhythms, cadences, perspectives and transparencies. Itâ€™s my way of telling a story.”
“You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.”

Source : David Suzuki, Ian Hanington (2012). “Everything Under the Sun: Toward a Brighter Future on a Small Blue Planet”, p.160, Greystone Books
“I incorporate different styles that work for me. I could easily change my style depends on my opponent.”

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