Louis Garrel Quotations

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.

I wanted to be a lawyer. I love that job; I dont know why.

I'm not usually comfortable to talk about things I haven't done yet.

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.

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.

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

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.

I like being surrounded by students and intellectuals.

In France, I would like to worth with Patrice Chereau, who made Queen Margot.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

When I was 13 years old, I was dressing in a rap style. And then I changed schools, and the rap style became old-fashioned, so I changed it completely.

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.

I'm sure you can even find ménage à trois in medieval tales.

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.

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.

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."

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.