Louis Garrel Quotes

I've never cared about how successful or how big I was going to be. I just wanted to be part of a story that affected people, made them laugh or cry. To me, that was more important than having my face on some billboard.

Art is not meant to change the world.

Art is something that opens up and enhances your emotions and that's what I like to think I'm doing.

I don't believe that art is just for entertainment. I want to create art that is meaningful in some way.

I wanted to make people feel the same way I feel when I see a good movie.

I have no interest in making a work that doesn't elicit a feeling.

My idea of art is, you write something that makes people feel so strongly that they get some conviction about who they want to be or what they want to do. It's morally useful not in a political way, but it makes your heart bigger; it's emotionally and spiritually empowering.

I make music to touch the souls of people as it's a language we all can speak.

Those of us who make films try to make something that we're feeling and that we would like. Then we just hope an audience responds the same way. It's very important to have the electrical circuit made, but I don't have control over how people feel when they flip the switch. So the whole idea of marketing research and test screenings is just foreign to me.

There are so many things to be considered in making music. The whole question of life itself... I know that I want to produce beautiful music, music that does things to people that they need.

What I do as an art form is try to make people feel good and if I do try to make them feel bad, it's for a reason. There's something I am trying to say.

I write music, and I want people to listen to it and care about it and have it make some difference in their lives. When I'm fortunate for that to happen, then of course I feel very, very good about it.

When you know you made a film that people are going to watch, that's just really awesome; you know you did it for something, you know you shot a film for people to watch it.

I think that music is still a mystery to most people. It kind of goes through most people without a specific thought. They feel the music, which is what's supposed to happen. They're not supposed to be curious about who wrote the music; they're supposed to feel what the show is trying to get them to feel. So if I help get that feeling across, that's good enough for me.

I do want to say things in these films. I want audiences to come out with shards stuck in them. I don't care if people love my films or walk out, as long as they have a strong response.

When art becomes merely shock value, our sense of humanity is slowly degraded.

I love the way art moves people emotionally. I love the fact that when someone purchases art it is the one thing that will last for generations.

True movies will never be measured by how much they make - they'll be measured by how they make you feel.

I feel like the movie is reminding people of who they are, which is what I think all great art does.

I guess that storytelling would be for me to keep making art that touches people in a way that nothing else can.

I don't know why people see the things that they do. I wouldn't pay to see them, they don't touch me or move me in any way.

Because of their origin and purpose, the meanings of art are of a different order from the operational meanings of science and technics: they relate, not to external means and consequences, but to internal transformations, and unless it produce these internal transformations the work of art is either perfunctory or dead.

I usually don't mind movies that people think go overboard because that's what art is all about. Art is about pushing us and making us examine ourselves.

When art is really great, it's really powerful, can really do something to you, make you feel more alive and make you feel more connected to something. If you don't feel like that when you do it, and you just make a movie to make money, that would be pretty boring to me. I just wouldn't do it. That would be like sitting in an office, which I don't want to do.

Music's at its best when it has a purpose.