Isabelle Huppert Quotes
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Firstly I did it in this huge theatre in Avignon, then to smaller places, then bigger places. You have to change the volume of the voice, give more or less. The way you have to relate to space makes it like sculpture.
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Sometimes you don't really understand the characters you do. I don't need to. Most of the behavior is obscure and I don't mind that. On the contrary, it's a fuel for me, to find out who the character is. As the spectator is finding out, I find out about the character myself.
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For a long time I have compared cinema to music, I think cinema has a lot to do with the rhythm of music.
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The Greeks already understood that there was more interest in portraying an unusual character than a usual character - that is the purpose of films and theatre.
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I did a film very quickly, and then a lot of work for television, and then I did stage work.
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It really helps you to go through difficult situations by just thinking about it as being a big amount of work which you have to solve how to do. For example, I don't feel very inspired when I act, I just act. That's it.
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When you're an actress you are in a very specific position, cerebrally, I would think you know. You are a thinking person but you are in a certain perception of the world between really being conceptual and completely stupid. So you are in between, with a lot of intuition and instinct. And that's not completely being intellectual because I think intuition is more blurred. It comes from intuition. Instinct. More than really reasoning.
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But theatre is always a difficult experience.
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Going through this musical experience really helped us to understand the core of the film.
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Sometimes, an actress maybe knows how to think.
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Acting is a way of living out one's insanity.
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By definition, acting is improvisation, even if you follow the lines. You invent what you do, when you do it.
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Balzac, you know, our great Balzac, he wrote interesting things about how in literature you keep distance in order to express great feelings. You have to keep a distance - and it's exactly the same with acting.
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I think that a sense of humor of an actor comes through most of the time. Maybe some actors have less than others, and I have it, I think. It's my nature.
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Perhaps Europeans are a bit more skeptic whereas Americans are more believers.
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When you come to do the film, it is not the time to wonder why you do it. It's just how to do it
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Well, my mother, she made me apply for a school where I was supposed to learn how to type. She said, well, instead of going to demonstrate she should at least [learn], because, everything was on strike. So we had to learn something in the meantime.
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It was sometimes 60 degrees [Celsius], but it's very strange, cinema makes you forget reality most of the time. You are more concerned about your inner feelings, or your work.
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For me, making films is like being on vacation, it's a nice walk. But theatre is like mountaineering. You never know whether you're going to fall off or make it to the top.
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I don't get many good offers. I like to follow the same kind of path I follow in France. If I don't feel the movie is very original or has a good amount of potential, I don't do it. In the films I've done I can feel I'm part of a specific universe, but those sorts of opportunities are quite rare.
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Sometimes maybe children also fulfill their parents' secrets desire.
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Some roles are easier to choose, some roles are more difficult because they are more daring. Sometimes you have to dare.
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I saw Chekhov a number of times in English, and I thought that it translates very well in English, for some reason, from the Russian to the English.
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Like all school students, I think I did a play in my school. The common things, I would say. Nothing really exceptional.
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I'm curious and you know, I really think cinema is strong medium that allows you to go to so many different mental countries, not just geographical countries. As far as it allows me to express something of my own truth, it's fine for me. I can go to the moon.
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But someone like Claude Chabrol tries to make a connection between the society in which we live and the social reasons which make monsters out of some people
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I don't think I'm that intellectual.
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There are many different ways of being funny. I'm not sure that there's so many different ways of being dramatic.
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I don't have time, because I still have so many films to see.
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I don't know if you ever say to yourself that you want to be an actress. It eventually becomes a social function - you are an actress and you make a living out of it, but at the beginning it's more a matter of how to survive, or how to exist in a certain way.
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