“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.” MenTwoFilmListsI RealizedOne Woman Author:Louis Garrel
“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.” CharacterFilmSocialFashionDefinedCinemaFrench Cinema Author:Louis Garrel
“Since I knew I was going to make a film that was purely about emotions, and I knew that I ran the risk of being accused of amnesia relating to the social film, to prevent this I decided it would be good to have characters who were on the margins of society. These are characters for whom love is really the only way to know that they're alive.” KnowsWayCharacterWould BeFilmSocialLove IsEmotionAliveRiskDecidedBe GoodRanAccusedMarginsAmnesiaBeing Accused Author:Louis Garrel
“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.” KindFilmPrinciplesStudyEmotionalObjectivesSentimentalSubterfuge Author:Louis Garrel
“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.” WantMightActorsSense Of HumorGloomy Author:Louis Garrel
“I think that what people abroad want from French film, inside French film becomes our worst fear, "Oh, another film about love!"” PeopleThinkingWantFilmWorstWorst Fear Author:Louis Garrel
“Because 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.” KindShowsWantedTurnsStreetsBoxesSnowParisFakeCharmingUpside DownLuminousCocoons Author:Louis Garrel
“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."” PeopleCitiesParisLove Each OtherVery Famous Author:Louis Garrel
“People always go to Paris for their honeymoon. It's like they think because the distances are closer, it's much warmer.” PeopleThinkingDistanceParisHoneymoon Author:Louis Garrel