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

- 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.

- 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."

- 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 so…

- 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 filme…

- Louis Garrel

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

- Louis Garrel

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

- Louis Garrel

I hope each day to have done 10 seconds of good work that they can use in the film. And Im always afraid I didnt get those 10 seconds.

- Louis Garrel

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

- Louis Garrel