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Balzac, you know, our great B...

Balzac, you know, our great Balzac, he wrote interesting things about how in literature you keep distance in order to express great feelings. You have to keep a distance - and it's exactly the same with acting.

Isabelle Huppert 59 quotes

To me acting and doing movies...

To me acting and doing movies is really strongly about the present time. It's all about when you do it. It's to create this feeling of extreme awareness and concentration. Because it doesn't happen without an extreme concentration, when you are completely immersed and focused on that.

Isabelle Huppert 59 quotes

Sometimes you don't really un...

Sometimes you don't really understand the characters you do. I don't need to. Most of the behavior is obscure and I don't mind that. On the contrary, it's a fuel for me, to find out who the character is. As the spectator is finding out, I find out about the character myself.

Isabelle Huppert 59 quotes

I know some real intellectual...

I know some real intellectual people who might laugh, very close friends who might laugh when I'm said to be an intellectual.

Isabelle Huppert 59 quotes

To be a great director, what ...

To be a great director, what does it mean exactly? It's not only about a great director, but also about being able to rely on the very special chemistry that goes between them. It not only has to be a great director, but the great director has to make his relationship to you, the actor, very special.

Isabelle Huppert 59 quotes

Am I an intellectual? I don't...

Am I an intellectual? I don't think so. Less than people sometimes think, I have to say. But more than some others think.

Isabelle Huppert 59 quotes

I always thought that's the e...

I always thought that's the exact metaphor, the perfect metaphor for acting. To go blind, to ignore the danger, and to totally trust.

Isabelle Huppert 59 quotes

One would expect an actress t...

One would expect an actress to stand onscreen mostly as a caricature. If she would say, "I'm selling shoes," you would believe her. She says it and it creates this fiction, non-fiction perception of the film. People believe it because she says it. If she said, "I'm a butcher," people would believe it too, I think.

Isabelle Huppert 59 quotes

I don't get many good offers....

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 is very original or has a good amount of potential, I don't do it. In the films I've done I can feel I'm part of a specific universe, but those sorts of opportunities are quite rare.

Isabelle Huppert 59 quotes

Well, my mother, she made me ...

Well, my mother, she made me apply for a school where I was supposed to learn how to type. She said, well, instead of going to demonstrate she should at least [learn], because, everything was on strike. So we had to learn something in the meantime.

Isabelle Huppert 59 quotes

The choosing of a role is so ...

The choosing of a role is so difficult for me. That's the real challenge: to choose the role, not to do the role. Once you've chosen them, the process is much easier.

Isabelle Huppert 59 quotes

To be "here and now," in prin...

To be "here and now," in principle, is just for once. And then you have to repeat that.

Isabelle Huppert 59 quotes

Going through this musical exp...

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

Isabelle Huppert 59 quotes

I did a film very quickly, and...

I did a film very quickly, and then a lot of work for television, and then I did stage work.

Isabelle Huppert 59 quotes

I don't get many good offers. ...

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 is very original or has a good amount of potential, I don't do it. In the films I've done I can feel I'm part of a specific universe, but those sorts of opportunities are quite rare.

Isabelle Huppert 59 quotes

I never wondered whether I sho...

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

Isabelle Huppert 59 quotes

Perhaps Europeans are a bit mo...

Perhaps Europeans are a bit more skeptic whereas Americans are more believers.

Isabelle Huppert 59 quotes

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

Once you have made the decisio...

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

For a long time I have compare...

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

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