Leos Carax Quotes & Sayings

“When I was 16, I felt very relieved to discover cinema. It was like an island where I could see life and death from another perspective. Every young person should be interested in that island. It's a beautiful place.”

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

“I travel, I read, I write, I have other lives. But when I have a camera, I know that's my country, my island.”

“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 made my first film, I had hardly ever seen a camera before, and I was a young man when I arrived in Paris from the suburbs. At the time, I didn't talk much. I was very shy, so the bluff served me. I was telling people that I had no money, and that I knew how to make films, but I had no proof.”

“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.”

“I've always been interested in invisible worlds, and I like to visit digital worlds, you know, any world that's imposed on us.”

“I changed my name when I was 13. I don't know why but it made sense at the time. I wanted another identity. I wanted to reinvent myself.”

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

“I like tragedies, whether they're sci-fi or something else, but I can't say I know much about any genre in particular.”