Isabelle Huppert Quotes

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• Acting is a way of living out one's insanity.

  Isabelle Huppert

  Insanity, Acting, Way

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Character, Tragedy, Abnormal

  Interview with Christopher Cook, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2001.

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• 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

  Perfect, Acting, Blind

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I don't have time, because I still have so many films to see.

  Isabelle Huppert

  Film, Stills

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• We all pretend to be very strong, and then in a fraction, you can just break down, at least for me.

  Isabelle Huppert

  Strong, Breaking Down, Fractions

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• A film is the reflection of the soul of its creator.

  Isabelle Huppert

  Reflection, Soul, Film

  "Interview: Isabelle Huppert Talks Her Favorite Films Of 2014, The State Of Cinema, Michael Haneke & More". Interview with Katie Walsh, www.indiewire.com. December 9, 2014.

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• I think movies say a lot [about real life], even more than theater. It says a lot about the invisible, that movies are so fascinating. The camera lens is like a microscope that goes beyond the surface. It's like you're exploring a secret, so you explore the director's secret, you explore the actor's secret, and therefore you explore the universe's secrets.

  Isabelle Huppert

  Real, Thinking, Secret

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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

  Thinking, Expression, Feelings

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The Greeks already understood that there was more interest in portraying an unusual character than a usual character - that is the purpose of films and theatre.

  Isabelle Huppert

  Character, Greek, Theatre

  Interview with Christopher Cook, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2001.

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• Sometimes over the years, you know, things come to surface.

  Isabelle Huppert

  Years, Sometimes, Surface

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• 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

  Stupid, Thinking, Intellectual

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• 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

  Distance, Order, Interesting

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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

  Isabelle Huppert

  Roles, Sometimes, Easier

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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

  Thinking, People, Intellectual

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• 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

  Character, Mind, Sometimes

  Source: www.elle.com

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

  Isabelle Huppert

  Principles, Here And Now, Repeats

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• By definition, acting is improvisation, even if you follow the lines. You invent what you do, when you do it.

  Isabelle Huppert

  Acting, Lines, Definitions

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• 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

  Thinking, Long, Cinema

  "Isabelle Huppert (I)". Interview with Christopher Cook, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2001.

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• When I hear myself, I don't know how I sound.

  Isabelle Huppert

  Sound, Know How, Knows

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• What people think improvisation is and non-improvisation is, it's nothing to do with what you like or dislike. It's all about how it happens with certain directors and certain scenes. That's the way it works. It's not something, in general, that you can decide.

  Isabelle Huppert

  Thinking, People, Directors

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• 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.

  Isabelle Huppert

  Nice, Fall, Vacation

  Interview with Christopher Cook, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2001.

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• 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

  Feelings, Acting, Awareness

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• But it wasn't just a technical approach towards the piano, studying the music for this film was also a way of approaching the soul of the film, because the film is really about the soul of Schubert and the soul of Bach.

  Isabelle Huppert

  Piano, Soul, Way

  "Isabelle Huppert (I)". Interview with Christopher Cook, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2001.

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• 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

  Play, Two, Miracle

  Interview with Christopher Cook, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2001.

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• Even for the most difficult scenes, and there are difficult scenes in the film, and because Michael Haneke is such a great film-maker - I think a great film-maker is not only being inspired, but how to do it, how to make it as real as possible, knowing that it's not real.

  Isabelle Huppert

  Real, Thinking, Knowing

  Guardian interviews at the BFI, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2001.

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