Garrel Quotes

#1. Garrel has succeeded in filming something we have never seen before: the faces of actors in silent films during those moments when the black intertitles, with their paltry, illuminated words, filled the screen.

Serge Daney

#2. It was only the thought that Deets was still knowing him, somehow, that kept him from feeling totally alone.

Larry McMurtry

#3. I wanted to be a lawyer. I love that job; I don't know why.

Louis Garrel

#4. 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

#5. If this had not been the case with Abraham, then perhaps he might have loved God but not
believed; for he who loves God without faith reflects upon himself, he who loves God believingly reflects upon God.

Soren Kierkegaard

#6. 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.

Louis Garrel

#7. I think that what people abroad want from French film, inside French film becomes our worst fear, "Oh, another film about love!"

Louis Garrel

#8. Reignite the fire in your heart. Live on purpose.

Dawna Markova

#9. 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.

Louis Garrel

#10. 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

#11. People always go to Paris for their honeymoon. It's like they think because the distances are closer, it's much warmer.

Louis Garrel

#12. 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

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

Louis Garrel

#14. 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

#15. 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.

Louis Garrel

#16. 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

#17. There is nothing I like better at the end of a hot summer's day than taking a short walk around the garden. You can smell the heat coming up from the earth to meet the cooler night air.

Peter Mayle

#18. 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

#19. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Anonymous

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

Louis Garrel

#21. I like being surrounded by students and intellectuals.

Louis Garrel

#22. 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.

Louis Garrel

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

Louis Garrel

#24. The separation of a childless couple is dramatic, but the separation of a couple with children is always tragic.

Louis Garrel

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

Louis Garrel

#26. 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.

Louis Garrel

#27. God's righteousness is revealed from faith to faith, just as it is written: " The righteous will live by faith." Romans 1:17

Beth Moore

#28. I've spent a bit of time with the Prince of Wales, who I respect greatly. I'd give two cheers for the Monarchy.

Sting

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

Louis Garrel

#30. 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

#31. 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.

Louis Garrel

#32. May I never be a tough guy, just a genuine one.

Tom Althouse

#33. 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

#34. Heart attacks are one of those things best left unprovoked.

Fisher Amelie

#35. I hate thinking about clothes. I hate shopping.

Natalie Maines

#36. 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.

Louis Garrel

#37. There's something about Paris, people just don't have anything else do there but love each other.

Louis Garrel