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Film Quotes by Bruno Dumont

17 Film quotes by Bruno Dumont

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Bruno Dumont’s film musings are stark and contemplative. In seventeen quotes he examines the raw edges of human experience, the role of silence, and the way visual language can confront viewers. The collection feels like an invitation to consider cinema as a probing art form.

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Matching character and actor is what a good director does.

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My life is existing. Cinema is certainly not my life

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I think there's not a lot of real filmmakers. There are only a few people who make real cinema. I can count…

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Your relationship to a film, and to cinema, is very much determined by yourself, so what is relevant is you.

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Hollywood films are alienating to the spectator because they use too much dialogue, too much explication and leave no space for the…

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Cinema is all about going back from shadow to light and back and forth: cinema is a place of transgression.

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Cinema is made to film material: the body. By filming the material, the mechanical, the worker, we arrive at the spiritual.

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I think that the cinema is a physical thing. What I'm looking for is creating a physical shock with the audience. I…

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Personally, I don't give a toss about French viewers. I make films for foreigners - it's a bit like Ken Loach, who's…

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The people follow what the media say. So if you said that Bruno Dumont is fantastic, it follows that more people would…

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My thinking was that today's spectator is so well-versed in film language that all theories about suspense, as argued by Dreyer and…

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I don't watch my own past films: when I watch them, I find they don't work very well, because I have changed.…

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When you make movies, you have to be preoccupied with the social problems, otherwise there is no point in making a movie.…

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Cinema builds memories; great films continue to exist in the spectator's mind. We are naturally capable of and prone to nostalgia. A…

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The more elaborate your narrative, the more the spectator shuts up and listens obediently. And if the filmmaker keeps quiet, the spectator…

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You can't create a movie as you think about it. And what's in the scene is not what's being seen. A shot…

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Hollywood films are alienating to the spectator because they use too much dialogue, too much explication and leave no space for the…

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Cinema is made to film material: the body. By filming the material, the mechanical, the worker, we arrive at the spiritual.

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The actor already comes with emotions to the scene: fear, the fear of being in front of the camera. It is this fear that…

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At the root of the Noble Savage myth is this basic truth: the savage is good, but he's also violent. This is why Rousseau…

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I'm not Catholic. I don't believe in God. But at the same time, I'm obsessed by the sacred, by spirituality. The question of redemption…

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The landscape is a reflection of the inner life. Since I can't shoot the inner life, all I can shoot is the exterior but…

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To retain his dignity, an artist must live in opposition. He must be critical of his country. If not, then he is worthless.

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I feel I have a political duty to reach out to the general public. I want to make films that the people want to…

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