
Empires are not brought down by outside forces, they are destroyed by weaknesses from within. —
Lionel

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

I feel that cinema is my country. But it's not my business. —
Leos Carax

There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it. —
Lord Acton

I'm not a cineaste. I've made so few films. Sometimes it feels each one is the last one or the first one. —
Leos Carax

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

I don't work with people who ask me questions. —
Leos Carax

No one dies a virgin, Life screws us all —
Daniel Tosh

When I was 16, I discovered this island called cinema and I thought: 'Oh, how wonderful; I'm ready.' —
Leos Carax

I have, oddly, two ski houses - trying to sell one. —
Nick Hanauer

Even a fiction film is hard to end. You can going on shooting and editing a documentary forever. —
Leos Carax

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. —
Leos Carax

Men talk about art, and artists make art, but should artists talk? —
Leos Carax

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

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? —
Leos Carax

I care about cinema even though I haven't made many films. —
Leos Carax

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

Every film starts with two or three images. Then I try to edit these images. —
Leos Carax

It's incredible how much cinema can do. We forget. —
Leos Carax

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. —
Leos Carax

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

Girls always told me..."Don't complicate things." I did my best. It was so hard to keep things simple. —
Leos Carax