Leos Carax Quotations

Video is freeing, but also lazier. You have to recreate the love of the moment.

I'm not especially interested in actors or their life, double, triple identities and all that.

I'm not against the virtual world; it's fascinating, but I don't like the way they try to impose it on us. It's a thing imposed by rich countries.

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.

I mostly don't submit to talking about my work because I would like another talk about real life.

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

I don't think men were meant to be interviewed.

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

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 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.