I think that what people abroad want from French film, inside French film becomes our worst fear, "Oh, another film about love!"
Louis GarrelParis, 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 GarrelAt the end of the day you do have to write a short novel beforehand, called a script, before you can make a movie.
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 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