Leos Carax Quotes

• I'm not only my films, but I'm pretty much my films.

  Leos Carax

  Film

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• 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.

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  Feelings, Trying, Together

  "Leos Carax, Motorized" by Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 17, 2012.

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• 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

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• I don't work with people who ask me questions.

  Leos Carax

  People, Ask Me, Asks

  "Holy Motors: the weird world of Leos Carax" by Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2012.

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• 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.

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  Beautiful, Portraits, Rooms

  "New York Film Festival - diary four" by Anne-Katrin Titze, www.eyeforfilm.co.uk. October 11, 2012.

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• 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.

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  Cinema, Territory, Way

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• It's incredible how much cinema can do. We forget.

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  Cinema, Forget, Incredibles

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• 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?

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  Tired, Cost, Answers

  "Holy Motors: the weird world of Leos Carax". Interview with Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2012.

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• 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

  "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, 201.

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• When I was 16 I discovered this island called cinema and I thought: 'Oh how wonderful, I'm ready.

  Leos Carax

  Islands, Cinema, Wonderful

  "Holy Motors: the weird world of Leos Carax". Interview with Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2012.

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• Every film starts with two or three images. Then I try to edit these images.

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  Two, Trying, Three

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• Even a fiction film is hard to end. You can going on shooting and editing a documentary forever.

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  Editing, Forever, Fiction

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• 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.

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  Real, Fate, Together

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

  Leos Carax

  Art, Men, Should

  "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.

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• I care about cinema even though I haven't made many films.

  Leos Carax

  Cinema, Care, Film

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• I feel that cinema is my country. But it's not my business.

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  Country, Cinema, Feels

  "Leos Carax on “Tokyo”: “Cinema is my country but it is not my business” by Eric Hynes, www.indiewire.com. March 4, 2009.

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