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Before I do a play I say that...

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 it, it is a paradoxical pleasure. One evening out of two there are five minutes of a miracle and for those five minutes you want to do it again and again. It's like a drug.

Isabelle Huppert 59 quotes

You don't want to cry over yo...

You don't want to cry over yourself, you don't want to have compassion about yourself. It's not the right place.

Isabelle Huppert 59 quotes

When you come to do the film,...

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

Isabelle Huppert 59 quotes

Some roles are easier to choo...

Some roles are easier to choose, some roles are more difficult because they are more daring. Sometimes you have to dare.

Isabelle Huppert 59 quotes

But someone like Claude Chabr...

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 of some people

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If on paper one would say, "Y...

If on paper one would say, "You're gonna spend three weeks in Death Valley," you say, "No, I'm not going to be able to." Very often, very quickly you forget about it.

Isabelle Huppert 59 quotes

When you're an actress you ar...

When you're an actress you are in a very specific position, cerebrally, I would think you know. You are a thinking person but you are in a certain perception of the world between really being conceptual and completely stupid. So you are in between, with a lot of intuition and instinct. And that's not completely being intellectual because I think intuition is more blurred. It comes from intuition. Instinct. More than really reasoning.

Isabelle Huppert 59 quotes

If I seem detached or distant...

If I seem detached or distant, it's because I think this is a more exact reproduction of life, where you hide as much as you show. When I see a scene in which feelings get loudly exteriorized, I say to myself, 'Well, at least this never happens to me.' I very rarely go through this type of expression. Most of the time things are hidden or at least much more subdued.

Isabelle Huppert 59 quotes

I think being an actress is m...

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 a way of being untalented for anything.

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Firstly I did it in this huge...

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 voice, give more or less. The way you have to relate to space makes it like sculpture.

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Yes, he wanted me to do Funny...

Yes, he wanted me to do Funny Games before, which I didn't want to do because the film was very theoretical - the way people experience violence on screen. There was very little space for fiction, it was more like a sacrifice for the actors than anything else.

Isabelle Huppert 59 quotes

Once you have made the decisi...

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 why you want to do the film, then it's more a matter of how to do things.

Isabelle Huppert 59 quotes

Going through this musical ex...

Going through this musical experience really helped us to understand the core of the film.

Isabelle Huppert 59 quotes

For a long time I have compar...

For a long time I have compared cinema to music, I think cinema has a lot to do with the rhythm of music.

Isabelle Huppert 59 quotes

I don't know if you ever say ...

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 an actress and you make a living out of it, but at the beginning it's more a matter of how to survive, or how to exist in a certain way.

Isabelle Huppert 59 quotes

For me, making films is like ...

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 fall off or make it to the top.

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For an actress there is no gr...

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 and just being looked at!

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I like to take these unusual ...

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 always hides itself behind the normal.

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I never wondered whether I sh...

I never wondered whether I should be a stage actress or a movie actress.

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In a very complex way, things...

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. Now it's more ambiguous.

Isabelle Huppert 59 quotes

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