People always go to Paris for their honeymoon. It's like they think because the distances are closer, it's much warmer.
Louis GarrelThere's something about Paris, people just don't have anything else do there but love each other.
Louis GarrelIm interested in existential films: I love movies that console you in the same way that a person consoles a weeping child.
Louis GarrelAs 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 GarrelI 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 GarrelBecause 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 Garrel