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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

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Isabelle Huppert
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: March 16
Film Actor
Film Actress
Film Producer
Stage Actor
Isabelle Anne Madeleine Huppert
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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.
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I've done many, many French movies and many, many English movies. I think it frees something when you don't talk in your mother language, but I also think you withdraw something as well. I'm a French actress, and sometimes I speak in English-speaking roles. For me, being an actress was always being a traveler. It goes together.
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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.
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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.
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One job is to be an actor, the other job is to be a spectator.
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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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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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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.
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A script is a very rough material in a way. Whatever questions you might have regarding the script, you might find the beginning of the answers in the book.
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I was raised and I was going to school in the suburbs of Paris. And so we, I didn't really go to the riots, to the barricade. I was too young, actually. Rather young.
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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.
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I don't think I'm that intellectual.
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Of course you have to create the conditions of a certain belief. And maybe ignoring something that you don't want to see, at least for the time of the shooting.
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Perhaps Europeans are a bit more skeptic whereas Americans are more believers.
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It was sometimes 60 degrees [Celsius], but it's very strange, cinema makes you forget reality most of the time. You are more concerned about your inner feelings, or your work.
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I did a film very quickly, and then a lot of work for television, and then I did stage work.
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To be here and now, in principle, is just for once. And then you have to repeat that.
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But on the whole, nothing requires unbearable energy for me, it's just a normal thing.
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Acting is a way of living out one's insanity.
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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.
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