Best 12 quotes of Leos Carax on MyQuotes

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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?

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