““...the best thing an individual movie lover can do is have fun. No great movement can happen in popular art without pure pleasure being the motive. (...) There should be nothing dutiful about exploring these actresses, and no one needs to consider himself or herself virtuous for knowing their films. All they offer is the exhilaration of experiencing a grand movement and the satisfaction that great art grants to those who pay attention. If we enjoy their work and love their work and spend our money accordingly, all will turn out right in the end.””
![“[on his satisfaction as an artist] In terms of cinema and filmmaking, there are certainly the unexpected gifts that the actors bestow on you. Film is always a question of compromises with respect to what you originally intended.” quote by Michael Haneke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/408/michael-haneke-3712_art_on-his-satisfaction-as-an-artist-in-term_2045011.jpg)
![“For all of [Fanny] Ardant’s ability to depict a range of emotion, I most associate her with joy. Not necessarily the depiction of joy, but rather a joy of acting, a joy of being, a joie de vivre . Ardant, in her mature performances, conveys the sense of someone bringing to scenes her full being…” quote by Mick LaSalle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ca2/mick-lasalle-23709_joie-de-vivre_for-all-of-fanny-ardant-s-ability-to-dep_65181.jpg)
