Louis Garrel Quotes
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."
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.
There's something about Paris, people just don't have anything else do there but love each other.
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.
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.
Im interested in existential films: I love movies that console you in the same way that a person consoles a weeping child.
At the end of the day you do have to write a short novel beforehand, called a script, before you can make a movie.
The separation of a childless couple is dramatic, but the separation of a couple with children is always tragic.
People always go to Paris for their honeymoon. It's like they think because the distances are closer, it's much warmer.
I think that what people abroad want from French film, inside French film becomes our worst fear, "Oh, another film about love!"
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 hope each day to have done 10 seconds of good work that they can use in the film. And Im always afraid I didnt get those 10 seconds.
