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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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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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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.
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Like all school students, I think I did a play in my school. The common things, I would say. Nothing really exceptional.
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Sometimes maybe children also fulfill their parents' secrets desire.
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Acting is a way of living out one's insanity.
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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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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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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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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 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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A film is the reflection of the soul of its creator.
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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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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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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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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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I never had any barriers coming from my family. Just encouragement.
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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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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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Some roles are easier to choose, some roles are more difficult because they are more daring. Sometimes you have to dare.
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One job is to be an actor, the other job is to be a spectator.
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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.
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