Philippe Claudel

An artist is someone who feels the vibrations of the world and tries to transcribe them through his medium.

— Philippe Claudel

“Cuando le pregunté si no le pesaba la soledad, se quedó pensando un buen rato y luego, con voz grave y serena…

— Philippe Claudel

I like speed in thrillers. It's a rhythm adapted to the subject.

— Philippe Claudel

“Why did I, like thousands of others, have to carry a cross I hadn't chosen, a cross which was not made for…

— Philippe Claudel

My work is very controlled. I leave nothing to chance. Chance comes afterward... Making a film is like cooking a pot au…

— Philippe Claudel

“Oh little Poupchette, some may tell you that you are nobody's child, a child of defilement, a child begotten in fear and…

— Philippe Claudel

“Para intentar comprender a la gente, hay que excavar hasta las raíces. No basta con darle un empujón al tiempo con el…

— Philippe Claudel

I think about the sincerity of my writing. I try to be true, to pose questions. Shake people up a bit and…

— Philippe Claudel

“...In the end, there's no sort of difference between dying from ignorance and dying under the feet of thousands of men who…

— Philippe Claudel

It's the comedies and thrillers that are successful. People love horror, but in thrillers. Once you speak of pain and suffering it's…

— Philippe Claudel

It's always been difficult for me to speak and express my innermost thoughts. I prefer to write. When I sit down and…

— Philippe Claudel

In a novel, language is your principal tool, you try to build pictures in the mind of the reader. When you write…

— Philippe Claudel

“En coupant du temps on en fabrique.”

— Philippe Claudel

I'm not imprisoned in any one medium. In films I use techniques that are not necessarily what other directors attempt. When I…

— Philippe Claudel

“A dozen incidents of this kind made everyone realise that the monsters had never left them, that they had simply fallen asleep…

— Philippe Claudel

Most of all people respond to a film tackling grave subjects that question and go against the prevailing mood.

— Philippe Claudel

“Saintliness is very odd. When people encounter it, they often take it for something else, something completely unlike it: indifference, mockery, scheming,…

— Philippe Claudel

“when you live among the flowers, you don't think about the mud.”

— Philippe Claudel