The power that a president has in France is like the power of a king. In America, you know that his power is limited. Maybe because there used to be a king for centuries and now they’re still behaving like they need a king.
GASPAR NOEThe power that a president has in France is like the power of a king. In America, you know that his power is limited. Maybe because there used to be a king for centuries and now they’re still behaving like they need a king.
GASPAR NOEThe negative has to be done on an A and B [roll] so you don’t see the cuts, the splices on the frameline.
GASPAR NOEPeople sometimes, they just stop because they see this scope movie. They say “oh, this is a real movie, this is not a TV movie.”
GASPAR NOEThe French movies that are promoted abroad are the ones that give a trendy, cultural, petit bourgeois, upper class image of France, but it’s true that people who are poor in France are the same in New York or in India.
GASPAR NOEIn France, like in most countries, the respect you receive depends on your class.
GASPAR NOEI think that wars will never stop, it’s just that there are sides. You have to choose your side. And there are more progressive sides.
GASPAR NOEHallucinations are an inner experience in which most of the time you forget you’re there.
GASPAR NOEI think that it’s much brighter just to assume that you’re an animal in the jungle and you have to survive.
GASPAR NOEI notice that I feel safer among women when I do drugs. I would never do drugs with male friends.
GASPAR NOEIf you’re a Bosnian and suddenly you get attacked by the Serbs, there’s just one way of getting rid of your opponents. It’s taking revenge and trying to fight as hard as you can.
GASPAR NOEfalling in love is the most natural thing in the world. Everybody has been through it, everybody has scars, everybody wants to restart falling in love.
GASPAR NOEMy weapon is just a movie.
GASPAR NOEWhen you start a movie… when it’s a short, people don’t care… but when it’s a feature they want money.
GASPAR NOEIn most cases, I don’t know how much, I cannot say if it’s ninety nine percent or eighty percent, but the problem with incestuous relationships is that they often come from frustration. And from need of power.
GASPAR NOEScope movies shown on TV letter-boxed are always the big budget movies.
GASPAR NOEMy father is much more into forgetting and forgiving, but I’m much more into revenge.
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