Leos Carax Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Every film starts with two or three images. Then I try to edit these images.”
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“I care about cinema even though I haven't made many films.”
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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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“I'm not a cineaste. I've made so few films. Sometimes it feels each one is the last one or the first one.”
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“I don't work with people who ask me questions.”
-- Leos CaraxSource : "Holy Motors: the weird world of Leos Carax" by Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2012.
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“Men talk about art, and artists make art, but should artists talk?”
-- Leos CaraxSource : "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 feel that cinema is my country. But it's not my business.”
-- Leos CaraxSource : "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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“When I was 16, I discovered this island called cinema and I thought: 'Oh, how wonderful; I'm ready.'”
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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 CaraxSource : "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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“I'm not only my films, but I'm pretty much my films.”
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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?”
-- Leos CaraxSource : "Holy Motors: the weird world of Leos Carax". Interview with Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2012.
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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.”
-- Leos CaraxSource : "Leos Carax, Motorized" by Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 17, 2012.
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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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“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 CaraxSource : "New York Film Festival - diary four" by Anne-Katrin Titze, www.eyeforfilm.co.uk. October 11, 2012.
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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.”
-- Leos Carax
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