“In France now, there's no problem with official censorship. Once your movie is finished, you always are R-rated. My movie is just R-rated in France. But when you meet French producers with a script like mine, they behave like the most fragile chickens in the world. They just tell you "Oh, no. You should cut this. You should cut that." And at the end you have been totally censored on the synopsis, and then on the script.” WorldShouldHas BeensEndsProblemCuttingMinesScriptsFinishedProducersFranceBehaveOfficialsChickensFragileCensorshipNo ProblemCensoredSynopsis Author:Gaspar Noe
“That's why workers in France like horsemeat, because it's like a male thing that makes you strong. Cow meat is a much more female meat.” StrongFemaleWorkersMalesFranceMeatCows Author:Gaspar Noe
“The 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.” PeopleGivingPoorClassNew YorkIndiaFranceBourgeoisUpper ClassTrendyFrench Movies Author:Gaspar Noe
“I think British people for example can handle better their own poorness. The image of their poorness. But in France, people don't handle it very well. Either you are normal or ... if you are poor you better not show it.” PeopleIfsThinkingWellsShowsPoorExampleNormalBritishHandleFrance Author:Gaspar Noe
“Movies dealing with social subjects in France become very paternalist. They want to teach lessons. They don't show poorness like a normal situation.” WantShowsSocialSituationTeachSubjectsLessonsNormalFrance Author:Gaspar Noe
“In France, like in most countries, the respect you receive depends on your class.” CountryClassDependsFrance Author:Gaspar Noe
“France is a very paternalistic society where people have to be introduced.” PeopleFrance Author:Gaspar Noe
“In France, it's just.., if you're the son of someone, you can be sure that you will have a good life. Because you're the son of this guy or the daughter of that guy you will be introduced to this person who will give you a job even if you're totally incompetent.” IfsGivingPersonsJobsGuySonDaughterFranceGood LifeThis GuyThat GuyIncompetent Author:Gaspar Noe
“America in some ways is much more of a democracy then France. It is and it's not.” WayAmericaDemocracyFrance Author:Gaspar Noe
“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.” KnowsNeedsStillsAmericaUsedPresidentCenturyKingsUsed To BeFrance Author:Gaspar Noe
“In England they need a king, in Spain they need a king, in France there is no more king. But they consider the president as if he was a king.” IfsNeedsPresidentKingsEnglandFranceSpain Author:Gaspar Noe
