Directors Quotes by Mathieu Amalric

I directed three films and each time [I act] I hope it's the last time so I have time to do my film [directing].

— Mathieu Amalric

Arnaud Desplechin invented me as an actor. I never imagined I'd be acting in movies.

— Mathieu Amalric

I first started working in film when I was 17. I was a director's assistant, an editor.

— Mathieu Amalric

I keep meeting directors that are so irresistible. I only do irresistible films, because I don't need to act to feel myself alive.

— Mathieu Amalric

Being an actor only came about because Arnaud Desplechin, the guy who did 'Kings and Queen', had this curious idea to think that I…

— Mathieu Amalric

I don't want to be a star!

— Mathieu Amalric

I'm always intrigued when you are travelling through a place and there is somebody who has lived there and done the same job for…

— Mathieu Amalric

Cannes is a circus, so you have to have fun with it. Everything suddenly becomes funny. And the promotion of a movie - that's…

— Mathieu Amalric

If you approach Cannes with a sense of humor, nothing is that bad. You have to take it for what it is; otherwise, it's…

— Mathieu Amalric

Sometimes with anger you can be much more dangerous than with skill.

— Mathieu Amalric

Acting is about animality. It's great to be allowed to be animal. But I feel more alive as a director. Every morning, I have…

— Mathieu Amalric

Im always intrigued when you are travelling through a place and there is somebody who has lived there and done the same job for…

— Mathieu Amalric