His professional name, Leos Carax, is an anagram of his first and middle names, "Alex Oscar."
[on Pola X (1999)] The film was thought to be in three parts, three chapters. There's the one chapter in the countryside, called 'In the Light.' I knew this chapter would be light, it would be green and white, green for nature. I dyed all of the ...
Often makes refferences to Louis-Ferdinand Céline, e.g. quotation from Death on Credit at the beginning of Boy Meets Girl (1984), Doctor Destouches in Bad Blood (1986), driver Céline in Holy Motors (2012).
Alexandre Oscar Dupont
Suresnes, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France