Leos Carax Quotes

Used properly, cinema is the coolest thing in the world.

Cinema through spectacle, through the entertainment of spectacle, tells the story of many actual problems in life. Because who ever doesn't want to read between the lines can just enjoy the entertainment and the show and can go home happy.

Movies are a world of Fragments.

Cinema serves as a constant reminder to us of who we are and what we are made of.

Cinema is like dream.

I mean, the whole idea of movies was it was special to go to see - you went to a movie theater to see something that was magical and amazing, in a very special location.

The written word can be powerful and beautiful - but films transport us to another place in a way that even the most evocative words never can.

I wanted to make people feel the same way I feel when I see a good movie.

If you can't believe a little in what you see on the screen, it's not worth wasting your time on cinema.

The beauty of cinema is that it can do some things that novels just can't.

Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium.

Cinema is visually powerful, it is a complete experience, reaches a different audience. It's something I really like. I like movies.

In Hollywood, moviemaking used to be about escaping reality to go to the movies.

I love to just go to the movies, watch movies, listen to the scores and all that 'cause that's, like, the next step for me.

I love moments in film where there's no dialogue, and somebody communicates something with a look that kills you. That's why I love going to the cinema.

Try this experiment: Pick a famous movie - 'Casablanca,' say - and summarize the plot in one sentence. Is that plot you just described the thing you remember most about it? Doubtful. Narrative is a necessary cement, but it disappears from memory.

Since the time I was a kid, I used to love big films.

I've always enjoyed film, but I'm a little afraid of it because I think it is very powerful as a medium. You have the visuals, the sound, the colors, all of these things coming at you, and they transport you physically so it becomes this surround sound, virtual reality.

I've always been a fan of movies well before I got involved in the industry. The magic that it brings and being able to, I guess, escape your troubles, escape whatever is going on in life and getting to live in this moment and in the story and live in the lives of these characters.

Cinema is movement, after all.

I'm curious and you know, I really think cinema is strong medium that allows you to go to so many different mental countries, not just geographical countries. As far as it allows me to express something of my own truth, it's fine for me. I can go to the moon.

Cinema and emotion trump reality for me.

I love cinema. I think the risk of the aesthetics being fixed is compensated by other advantages. Cinema is visually powerful, it is a complete experience, reaches different audience. It's something I really like. I like movies.

I believe the cinema is one of our principal forms of art. It is an incredibly powerful way to tell uplifitng stories that can move people to cry with joy and inspire them to reach for the stars.

Movies are the greatest art form the world has come up with yet. If you don't use them to the full extent and you don't give people as much as you possibly can, you're doing a disservice to it.