Top 26 Louis Garrel Quotes
#1. I like being surrounded by students and intellectuals.
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#2. 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.
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#3. In France, I would like to worth with Patrice Chereau, who made 'Queen Margot.'
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#4. The separation of a childless couple is dramatic, but the separation of a couple with children is always tragic.
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#5. My grandfather criticized me thousands of times, and he gave me a compliment once.
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#6. 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.
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#7. I'm 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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#8. 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.
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#9. 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.
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#10. 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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#11. 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.
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#12. There's something about Paris, people just don't have anything else do there but love each other.
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#13. People always go to Paris for their honeymoon. It's like they think because the distances are closer, it's much warmer.
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#14. I'm not usually comfortable to talk about things I haven't done yet.
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#15. I wanted to be a lawyer. I love that job; I don't know why.
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#16. 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.
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#17. 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.
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#18. I think that what people abroad want from French film, inside French film becomes our worst fear, "Oh, another film about love!"
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#19. 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.
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#20. 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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#21. 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.
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#22. Some people choose their style at the age of 14, but I changed mine all the time.
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#23. 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."
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#24. I hope each day to have done 10 seconds of good work that they can use in the film. And I'm always afraid I didn't get those 10 seconds.
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#25. At the end of the day you do have to write a short novel beforehand, called a script, before you can make a movie.
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#26. 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.
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