Louis Garrel Quotes

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.

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

I'm not a singer, so I reproduce a little bit what I see on television and what I listen to on the radio. I don't have self-control, really, so I didn't want to sing like Mariah Carey.

It's true I have a hard time with the notion of creating a character. And I feel it's a limit. I'm always really impressed by actors who are able to construct a character, like Johnny Depp.

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

To make a movie is very stressful, especially when you work with your father. You want to think the movie is good. Even when I don't work with my father, I want it to be good.

Some people choose their style at the age of 14, but I changed mine all the time.

I think the moment I discovered I definitely wanted to act was when I saw a play alone by myself when I was fourteen. Maybe it was a Moliere play? I discovered the atmosphere of the theater, and I knew I wanted to be an actor.

Every actor has an obsession with their hair. You can see it on set, and you start to realize it's completely silly. I can be very obsessed by my hair, but all these hours spent trying to style it are useless, because ultimately, you can't change your haircut. It's all the same.

The separation of a childless couple is dramatic, but the separation of a couple with children is always tragic.

Paris, though it's a very famous city, it's very small, so people always tell themselves, "We're gonna love each other in Paris."

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.

I wanted to be a lawyer. I love that job; I don't know why.

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

My grandfather criticized me thousands of times, and he gave me a compliment once.

Because if I were gay, [and] I'm not gay yet - maybe one day - but if I were gay, I'd like to see movies where homosexuality isn't always a problem.

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

I like to be able to understand the feeling of the director, that a film corresponds to something in his life. Otherwise, it doesn't interest me much.

I knew that the principle objective of my film was to be a sentimental or an emotional study. What I did was kind of like subterfuge.