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 GarrelI 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 GarrelYou 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 GarrelThere'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