Bruno Dumont Quotes

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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 viewer. They depress…
• 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 I…
• Hollywood films are alienating to the spectator because they use too much dialogue, too much explication and leave no space for the viewer. They depress…
• Sound creates an intimate effect: the sensation to feel the place. It makes the viewer enter. You have the liberty to hear what you want.
• There is no god. I am an atheist. It is up to us to become God. We need to be elevated, to become saints. God…
• Cinema is my religion. It is a way to make people sensitive, through emotions. To make them feel, experience empathy. People are touched and act…
• Cinema is made to film material: the body. By filming the material, the mechanical, the worker, we arrive at the spiritual.
• Each role demands the right actor. To play an artist, one must be an artist.
• Cinema is all about going back from shadow to light and back and forth: cinema is a place of transgression.
• An actor is an instrument. One needs to control them.
• I feel I have a political duty to reach out to the general public. I want to make films that the people want to see.…
• The people follow what the media say. So if you said that Bruno Dumont is fantastic, it follows that more people would go to see…
• Matching character and actor is what a good director does.
• Your relationship to a film, and to cinema, is very much determined by yourself, so what is relevant is you.
• No movie can claim to be a work of philosophy. They fulfill a totally different need in people.
• To retain his dignity, an artist must live in opposition. He must be critical of his country. If not, then he is worthless.
• The battle between two men over a girl is the same as the fight for two men over a piece of land. It is all…

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