Louis Garrel Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“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.”
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“In France, I would like to worth with Patrice Chereau, who made Queen Margot.”
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“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.”
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“I like being surrounded by students and intellectuals.”
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“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.”
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“The separation of a childless couple is dramatic, but the separation of a couple with children is always tragic.”
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“Im interested in existential films: I love movies that console you in the same way that a person consoles a weeping child.”
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“I wanted to be a lawyer. I love that job; I dont know why.”
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“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 GarrelSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“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 GarrelSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“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 GarrelSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“There's something about Paris, people just don't have anything else do there but love each other.”
-- Louis GarrelSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“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 GarrelSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“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 GarrelSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“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 GarrelSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“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 GarrelSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“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 GarrelSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“I'm sure you can even find ménage à trois in medieval tales.”
-- Louis GarrelSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“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 GarrelSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“People always go to Paris for their honeymoon. It's like they think because the distances are closer, it's much warmer.”
-- Louis GarrelSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“I think that what people abroad want from French film, inside French film becomes our worst fear, "Oh, another film about love!"”
-- Louis GarrelSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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