Isabelle Huppert Quotes

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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…
• I never wondered whether I should be a stage actress or a movie actress
• Perhaps Europeans are a bit more skeptic whereas Americans are more believers.
• In a very complex way, things have improved in the dramatic field. Before you had the good and the bad and you couldn't mingle them.…
• Once you have made the decision to do the film, once you have identified the desire and all the deep and personal, intimate, artistic reasons…
• For a long time I have compared cinema to music, I think cinema has a lot to do with the rhythm of music
• 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…
• Before I do a play I say that I hope it's going to be for as short a time as possible but, once you do…
• The Greeks already understood that there was more interest in portraying an unusual character than a usual character - that is the purpose of films…
• 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…
• 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…
• I think being an actress is more how to cope with the fact that you can't do anything else than to express a talent. It's…
• For an actress there is no greater gift than having a camera in front of you, listening to the most beautiful music in the world…
• But on the whole, nothing requires unbearable energy for me, it's just a normal thing
• 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…
• Even for the most difficult scenes, and there are difficult scenes in the film, and because Michael Haneke is such a great film-maker - I…
• But it wasn't just a technical approach towards the piano, studying the music for this film was also a way of approaching the soul of…
• 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
• I like to take these unusual characters and then make them as normal as possible, because we all know that the tragedy and the abnormal…
• 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…

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