Louis Garrel Quotes

It's exhilarating to read something that tells you that people saw something and felt something that you thought was so discreet. When they relate you to some of their own fantasies of who or how some actresses should be in movies. That's really kind of sweet!

The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours

When a novelist manages to describe or evoke something you thought or felt, without realizing that other people also found themselves in the same situation and had the same feelings, it creates that same solidarity. Maybe it's better to think of humor not as a tool to express the solidarity, but a kind of by-product. Maybe the realization "I'm not on my own on this one" is always, or often, funny.

Readers prefer a world they can relate to.

The Big Chill is one of those things that everybody can identify with. Between eight characters, they can pick somebody who's somewhat like them.

I love relatable stories.

Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone's singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person. That's the only way I can find an explanation for why 55,000 people would want to come see me sing.

The audience likes a speaker with the same weakness and the same virtues that they themselves have.

Audiences want to feel represented, want to be able to empathize with the characters and the stories they are seeing on the screen.

I'm a normal person. I'm just like you and just like everyone else - I have feelings and thoughts.

Humanity has this need to hear stories because they connect us with other people, they teach us about our own feelings. We feel less lonely when we see other people going through the same things, even if they're fictional characters.

A lot of people have told me, you know, that what I've written about, they identify with strongly.

The character is close to me, except that I haven't lived through those situations, so it's not completely me.

I love the fact that people can relate to what I'm saying, even if it's not for the same subject I was writing about. That is the power of real music and real expression.

I tell stories about people audiences might think they have nothing in common with, then they emotionally connect with them and find they're not different at all.

Human beings have a lot of problems identifying themselves with other human beings who don't resemble them exactly. But there's something about drawing that means that anyone can identify to a drawing. I mean, people can identify themselves with Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse.

The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.

Because they're my stories, they're my version of events of the past three years. But I really hope people can hear their own stories within the songs and they can become our version of events.

If you learn the language of loss early, I think you seek out others who have experienced the same thing, who speak that same language of loss.

The great thing about a song is that no one has to know your story. But if you tell it in a way that has clarity and means something to somebody else, then it can apply to their story.

We all do that thing which is the best in movies - we relate.

Depending on the story that you're telling, you can be relatable to everybody or nobody. I try and tell everybody's story.

I love stories about people that, whatever situation they're in, you can relate to them in a way.

You want people - I want people to relate to me as a character. I want them to go, 'That could have been me,' or, 'I know someone like that.'

Art makes us feel less alone. It makes us think: somebody else has thought this, somebody else has had these feelings.