40 Quotes by Louis Garrel

Since I knew I was going to make a film that was purely about emotions, and I knew that I ran the risk of being accused of amnesia relating to the social film, to prevent this I decided it would be good to have characters who were on the margins of society. These are characters for whom love is really the only way to know that they're alive.

As an actor I've played a lot of gloomy, romantic leads and even though I might not want to recognize it, I actually really have a sense of humor.

I think that what people abroad want from French film, inside French film becomes our worst fear, "Oh, another film about love!"

Because I'm Parisian, I wanted to show a Paris that I don't see at the movies, so I spent a lot of time looking for places that have never been filmed, for streets that have never been filmed because there's a thing about Paris, where it's kind of like a charming music box, this luminous cocoon, like those things that have fake snow in them that you turn upside down.

People always go to Paris for their honeymoon. It's like they think because the distances are closer, it's much warmer.

There's something about Paris, people just don't have anything else do there but love each other.

There's a fashion, or maybe you could call it a necessity, in French cinema to make social films, which is to say films in which the characters are defined by their social context.

At the end of the day you do have to write a short novel beforehand, called a script, before you can make a movie.

Im interested in existential films: I love movies that console you in the same way that a person consoles a weeping child.