36 Quotes by Leos Carax

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.

There's a real cowardice in the movie business. If you don't meet the right crazy people, you can't do it.

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?

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.

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

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.

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