Leos Carax and his island

I like cinema. I don’t like cinephilia. I don’t care so much about film.

Leos Carax

Leos Carax and his island

Leos Carax

You can inhabit cinema without making film. That’s why cinephilia and cinema are two different things in my mind. I’m not a cinephile. I saw lots of films when I was 16, 17, until I made my second film.I don’t really know much, but, I still inhabit cinema—the way I see things, the way I think. It’s somehow miraculous that cinema exists. It’s an invention. No other art has been invented. Painting, sculpture was already there.

I felt very relieved when I was sixteen to discover cinema. To discover there was a land, a place, I call it an island, from where you could see life, and death. From another perspective, another angle, from many different angles. I think every young person should be interested in that island. It’s a beautiful place.

I like cinema. I don’t like cinephilia. I don’t care so much about film. I care about cinema – in terms of a place, this place, where you can see. So although I haven’t made many films, and I can’t consider myself a filmmaker, I believe – and I hope it’s not arrogant – that I live on this island.

It’s good living there.

Leos Carax (2012)

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