My grandfather criticized me thousands of times, and he gave me a compliment once. Louis Garrel More Quotes by Louis Garrel More Quotes From Louis Garrel Sometimes living is not so light and easy and you need a representation of life in front of you. It's a fake reorganization of reality. You start to feel, "I'm not so alone in the world because I can recognize exactly the same feelings." Louis Garrel fakefeelingsreality I like being surrounded by students and intellectuals. Louis Garrel students 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. Louis Garrel parisfakesnow 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." Louis Garrel pariscitiespeople 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. Louis Garrel gayone-dayproblem 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. Louis Garrel sentimentalemotionalprinciples I tried to make a list of films where there's two men and one woman and I realized there's films like this everywhere. Louis Garrel listsmentwo There's something about Paris, people just don't have anything else do there but love each other. Louis Garrel love-each-otherparispeople 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. Louis Garrel risklove-ischaracter 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. Louis Garrel cinemafashioncharacter The separation of a childless couple is dramatic, but the separation of a couple with children is always tragic. Louis Garrel separationcouplechildren I wanted to be a lawyer. I love that job; I dont know why. Louis Garrel lawyerwantedjobs At the end of the day you do have to write a short novel beforehand, called a script, before you can make a movie. Louis Garrel scriptsthe-end-of-the-daywriting In France, I would like to worth with Patrice Chereau, who made Queen Margot. Louis Garrel francequeensmade 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. Louis Garrel atmosphereplaythinking Im interested in existential films: I love movies that console you in the same way that a person consoles a weeping child. Louis Garrel movie-lovechildrenway You can do a good movie, or you can do a good movie that can help people to feel the idea of what it is like to live. It can be good in an artificial way; it can be also a good movie for your own existence. You don't know that when you do a movie. You don't know if you succeeded, which is the most difficult thing. Louis Garrel good-moviehelpingpeople People always go to Paris for their honeymoon. It's like they think because the distances are closer, it's much warmer. Louis Garrel parisdistancethinking 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. Louis Garrel actorswantmight I think that what people abroad want from French film, inside French film becomes our worst fear, "Oh, another film about love!" Louis Garrel wantpeoplethinking
