Leos Carax
Leos Carax
Alex Christophe Dupont, best known as Leos Carax, is a French film director, critic, and writer. Carax is noted for his poetic style and his tortured depictions of love. His first major work was Boy Meets Girl, and his notable works include Les Amants du Pont-Neufand Holy Motors. His professional name is an anagram of his real name, 'Alex', and 'Oscar'...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth22 November 1960
CitySuresnes, France
CountryFrance
When I was 16, I discovered this island called cinema and I thought: 'Oh, how wonderful; I'm ready.'
I feel that cinema is my country. But it's not my business.
Cinema is a territory. It exists outside of movies. It's a place I live in. It's a way of seeing things, of experiencing life. But making films, that's supposed to be a profession.
I care about cinema even though I haven't made many films.
It's incredible how much cinema can do. We forget.
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.