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~ Isabelle Huppert Quote
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 Quote
Going through this musical experience really helped us to understand the core of the film.
~ Isabelle Huppert Quote
Many people don't realize that it's in what you think are the limitations of a certain form that you can often find your own rhythm and space. I would never be able to do what I'm doing in a classical production, because in a classical staging, while you might think you're free, you're not. You're submitting to convention, to something totally arbitrary. In Claude Régy's production, it's the contrary: Because of the form, you can fly. I experienced this for the first time onstage with Bob Wilson. With him it's such a mathematical space, with such precise regulations, and yet I never felt so much myself.
~ Isabelle Huppert Quote
Perhaps Europeans are a bit more skeptic whereas Americans are more believers.
~ Isabelle Huppert Quote
I think being actor is more difficult for men. The very best actors are not afraid of playing with their own femininity and leaving aside power struggles with the director. Because there's no getting around it: on a film set, it's the director who has the power. This fact is often more difficult to accept for an actor than for an actress.
~ Isabelle Huppert Quote
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!
~ Isabelle Huppert Quote
I don't try to sympathise with my characters, I just try to empathise with them. To try to understand. If I sympathised with the characters I would make idealised, romantic characters out of them, which I don't do. I don't idealise them, I just do normal characters, not very sympathetic, but just the way they are. I think I do this in films that are made in the shape of a question, not in the shape of an answer. They just try to make a very open statement and it is down to anyone's subjectivity to find his own answer to that.
~ Isabelle Huppert Quote
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.
~ Isabelle Huppert Quote
I did a film very quickly, and then a lot of work for television, and then I did stage work.
~ Isabelle Huppert Quote
A script, even it differs from filmmaker to filmmaker, never tells the whole story; there are always elements that need to be invented. As soon as one decides to take a role after having read the script, the various elements begin to fall into place. A character begins to take shape. And regardless of whether the information given is ample or not, it appears to one, strangely, as an apparition. From that moment, one knows whether or not this figure will be able to pass through one; if there is a meeting point.
~ Isabelle Huppert Quote
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 Quote
Body language in the cinema is thus very particular. The screen can transmit an image very different of the body. In life, we see each other by facing each other. In the cinema, one is astonished to discover oneself from another angle. But at the same time there is no obligation to look. Serge Daney used to say that the work of actors is the make movies, and the work of the spectator is to look at them.
~ Isabelle Huppert Quote
But on the whole, nothing requires unbearable energy for me, it's just a normal thing.
~ Isabelle Huppert Quote
Cinema is a good medium to express this because you put a camera in front of a face and you can express whatever you want.
~ Isabelle Huppert Quote